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2025-08-06

Nietzsche and Kant around the unknown X

Mónica Cragnolini — 2024-12-19

Nietzsche rejects several aspects of Kantian thought, without recognizing the closeness between his idea of fiction and the place that Kant attributes to transcendental ideas as “heuristic fictions.” The reasons why Nietzsche assimilates Kantian thought to metaphysics will be analyzed, and above all, his criticism of the categorical imperative and its consequences as “moral fanaticism”. The author who recognizes, at the beginning of the 20th century, this Nietzsche-Kant closeness around the idea of fiction is Hans Vaihinger, therefore, we will focus on his analysis of the issue in Nietzschean thought.

La Kant´s Conception of Existence

Héctor Ferreiro — 2024-12-19

That existence cannot be a real predicate of the concept of a thing is not an original claim of Kant; it is, strictly speaking, a variation of a possible theory on existence that was already advanced by medieval and modern Scholastics. Thus, the analysis of the debates on being and essence of scholastic metaphysics allows us to better understand the meaning of the different possible approaches to the general problem of the relation between determinacy and existence. Against this historical and conceptual background it becomes possible to examine Kant's thesis on existence with new theoretical tools so as to delimit with greater precision its meaning and its difference not only with respect to the thesis of authors such as Wolff and Baumgarten, but also with respect to that of Kant's own immediate successors. Post-Kantian idealism explicitly criticizes Kant's conception of existence by resorting, in turn, to arguments that in not a few cases have also been recognized and partially developed by scholastic metaphysics.

Las The Kantian Motivations Behind McDowell's Conceptualism

Nicolás Serrano — 2024-12-19

This paper presents an analysis of the Kantian roots of the debate between conceptualists and non-conceptualists in contemporary philosophy of perception and cognitive sciences. To this end, I begin by reconstructing the general outlines of McDowell's (1994a) conceptualist position. I then point out the epistemic, transcendental, and ethical motivations that led the author to defend this position, highlighting its affinity with certain milestones of Kantian philosophy. Next, I analyze McDowell’s (2008a) revision of his position in light of non-conceptualist criticisms, the notion of "intuitional content," and its relationship with the aforementioned motivations. Finally, I argue that the authors of such criticisms still owe a dialogue with the foundational premise that sparked the debate: "intuitions, without concepts, are blind" (Kant KrV, A51/B76).

Note on the Tractatus and Critical Philosophy

Alberto Moretti — 2024-12-19

This paper explores the influence of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason on the intellectual attitude that emerged in late 19th-century philosophy, which emphasized the centrality of analysis. Founders of this movement, such as Frege, Russell, and Moore, were familiar with Kant's work and considered it in their reflections, especially in opposition to British Hegelianism. Although the term "analysis" was later applied to this intellectual disposition, it arose in a neo-Kantian European context. One of the most influential works from early analytic philosophy, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, is closely linked to Kant's critical philosophy, despite the unexpected background of its author, an eccentric and talented engineer. The extensive analytical literature since the 1960s has studied the connections between transcendental idealism and Wittgenstein’s reflections in the Tractatus and his later thoughts. This note provides a brief illustration of some observations linking the Tractatus with Kant's first Critique.

About the beginning, fifty years later

Ezequiel Pinacchio — 2024-12-19

This article explores publications that initiated the Philosophy of Liberation, with the intention of pointing out some conditions for the reactivation of certain ideas and lines of work present in them. First, it examines the relationship between Philosophy of Liberation and Latin American philosophy in the context of a counterpoint between two journals that appeared almost simultaneously in the mid-1970s. In this context, Francisco Miró Quesada is hailed as an exceptionary exemplar of how to navigate certain tensions within this framework. Additionally, other influential texts on the Philosophy of Liberation will be taken up in order to problematise the meaning and scope of the foundational operation carried out in them, with particular attention to the way in which it has affected the configuration of the Argentinean philosophical field. At this stage, two main conceptions of the project are distinguished, which generate different perspectives depending on their hierarchy: "the metaphysics of otherness" or "national liberation". Finally, some inherent tensions resulting from these options are emphasized in order to identify certain decisions against which any attempt to recover and relaunch this project would have to contend.

Eating from the Tree of Life

Claudia F. D'Amico — 2024-12-19

The paper highlights the connection established by Eriugena between the liberal arts and the human soul, first in the glosses he adds to Martianus Capella's text and later in his magnum opus, Periphyseon. The disciplines are not only immortal but eternal, and their practice unveils the structure of reality while contributing to the return of all that is real to its pristine being, which is, simultaneously, its purest knowledge. Through the analysis of these texts, certain allegorical images employed by Eriugena to elucidate this topic will be revealed.

El Musical Discourse: A Reflection over Meaning in Art

Marco Giusto — 2024-12-19

The philosophers Paul Ricoeur and Theodor W. Adorno share a trait d’union, which manifests itself in the relationship between musical language and verbal language. Parting from predominant poststructuralist interpretations, this article seeks to answer the following questions: How do both languages generate meaning in the thought of these two philosophers? Moreover, how does Adorno’s account of the linguistic character of music relate to Ricoeur’s analysis of verbal language? Addressing these questions, this study engages in a dialogue between Adorno’s and Ricoeur’s thought, examining the similarities in their conclusions. This analysis reveals that for Adorno as well as for Ricoeur, the dialectic between the particular and the universal constitutes the foundation for musical and verbal meaning. Building on this assertion, the present study proposes a potential path for clarifying the claim to objectivity in tonal music and music that, while transcending it, seeks to maintain a connection with it.

Historizar a Descartes

Mariela Paolucci — 2024-12-19

Translation and Introduction of the Preface of the italian edition of the Principles of Philosophy of Descartes, by Giuseppa Barbapiccola.

De la Redención a la Liberación: modulaciones filosófico-teológico políticas sobre la “justicia mesiánica” en el Nuevo Pensamiento contemporáneo, judeo-europeo y cristiano-latinoamericano

Juan Matias Zielinski — 2024-12-19

Resumen de tesis doctoral de Juan Matias Zielinski

Florencia Abadi, The Birth of Desire, Santiago de Chile, Pólvora Editorial, 2024. 110 pp. ISBN: 978-956-9441-92-9

Luz Agustoni — 2024-12-19

This work aims to review El nacimiento del deseo by Florencia Abadi, Ph.D. in Philosophy, researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), and professor of Aesthetics at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). In her book the author employs fields such as contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis, and Greek mythology to craft a comprehensive representation of this relentless force within human nature: desire (éros). The work comprises ten essays that delve into the various dimensions of this sentiment, including shame, guilt, betrayal, the historical fantasy of reproduction without women, enigma, cruelty, resentment, the ambiguous figure of the god Dionysus, and, ultimately, her own formulation of Ars erotica. The book is an engaging read and is intended both for a general audience and for readers with prior knowledge in the field.