Antropología filosófica

La Internacional Situacionista, fundada en 1957 y autodisuelta en 1971, fue uno de los movimientos fundamentales de la historia política y artística de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Durante la década de los años sesenta constituyó el germen teórico y práctico fundamental de los hechos de Mayo del 68, influyendo igualmente en las principales corrientes contraculturales surgidas en los años posteriores -desde el punk y el apropiacionismo hasta las nuevas formas de activismo y guerrilla cultural-. Paralelamente, en el ámbito especulativo, la crítica radical del sistema político,...

Socrate rend visite à Calliclès, chez qui réside le sophiste Gorgias. Il engage alors une vive discussion sur l’activité de Gorgias : la rhétorique. Selon Socrate, la rhétorique n’est pas un art, mais une « contrefaçon », qui cherche à gagner l’âme de l’auditeur sans l’instruire ni la corriger : elle fait croire et non savoir. À la fausse puissance rhétorique, Socrate oppose la véritable puissance philosophique, qui seule s’engage dans la poursuite de la vérité et permet à chacun de réaliser sa nature – de vivre bien.

María Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own perspective as an inhabitant of a number of different "worlds." Born in Argentina but living for a number of years in the United States, she sees herself as neither quite a U.S. citizen, nor quite an Argentine. An activist against the oppression of Latino/a people by the dominant U.S. culture, she is also an academic participating in the ...

This volume focuses on the reception and development of Aristotelian-Thomistic and (to a lesser extent) Scotistic political theory, natural law, positive law and the law of nations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Authors of the 'Second Scholasticism' (as discussed in this volume, at least, mainly Iberian philosophers and theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) not only commented on the works and updated the teachings of medieval Scholastic masters but also introduced many new ideas in all areas of philosophy, namely logic, natural philosophy, metaphysics, moral...