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“Those who believe in heaven on earth,
he said,
are creating hell
-he made it sound that way too-
it was very lucid”.
Greene Graham Our Man in Havana,[1]
I
Introduction: Conditions of Belief
The main goal of Hobbes’s theory of state is to secure peace[2]. Peace is for Hobbes the only possible road [...]
Pensant en English, Filosofia
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Karl Löwith’s reading of Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence of the Same
Introduction
Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same is a strange book. And it is strange in the strictest sense. It has been a stranger in the corpus of books that are commonly used as interpretative tools to unveil Nietzsche’s [...]
(On Peirce’s Categories and the Community of Inquirers)
I
-Science as a social process-
One of the main characteristics of Peirce’s philosophy of science is its social dimension. Against Cartesian solipsism, Peirce raises a series of counter-arguments that challenge both the intellectual process of attaining a truth–or, at least, a trustworthy conclusion-, grounded in all a priori [...]
Pensant en English, Filosofia
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Una història sopranesca cedida gentilment per la con-becària Marta Martínez per a aquest blog
In the store window of Grande Monuments, next to a pale statue of Mother Mary, there’s a golden rack full of crispy handmade bread. Jerry Ragusa, third generation owner of the Williamsburg funerary business on Graham Avenue, has added focaccias, baguettes and [...]
Pensant en Coses vistes, English
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Summary:
This essay is an analysis of the epilogue of the book “Memory, History, Forgetting” by the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur. The epilogue is entitled “Difficult forgiveness” and takes a philosophical anthropological approach to the act of forgiveness from a Christian perspective. Paul Ricoeur emphasizes the power of forgiveness in restoring “the capacity to act” of [...]
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Kosovo: a sui generis case?
Published in CEJP bulletin, on March the 20th, 2008
Yesterday at a press conference following the EU’s failure to arrive at a common position on the independence of Kosovo, a British journalist asked Javier Solana if the latest Balkan case would be treated as sui generis [...]