La Profesora Pamela Chávez Aguilar ha logrado con esta obra un muy difícil doble objetivo, que es el de presentar una síntesis del pensamiento agustiniano que fuera fielmente comprensiva y que, a su vez, supiera captar al lector con un lenguaje claro y didáctico.
¿Qué es el hombre, que puede ser apremiado y estar obligado por este imperativo categórico, más allá o más acá de cualquier certeza teórica o práctica de lo que pueda ser la humanidad, más allá o más acá de lo jurídico, lo religioso y lo moral, incluso más allá o más acá de los crímenes contra la humanidad?
Los ensayos reunidos en este libro se proponen examinar, con la mirada dialogante, crítica y propositiva del filósofo atento, algunos de los más fascinantes y complejos escenarios en los que hoy se exhibe la condición del ser vivo y de la vida, ante la que el pensamiento humano se ve exigido a reflexionar cada vez más profundamente.
How animals conceive of death and dyingand what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortalityWhen the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed.
The companion series to renowned theologian Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics masterworkHerman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century.
La mayoría de los Estados europeos limita el acceso al derecho a la protección de la salud a colectivos como el de los inmigrantes en situación administrativa irregular.
This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy and self-governed rationality.
Originally published in 1926, this book develops the Socratic thesis that morality is intelligence, that morality is not a matter of standards, laws and principles but in knowing what we do - in living self-consciously.
Aquapelagos is a cross-disciplinary volume that is geared to a general undergraduate and non-specialist readership while also being rigorous and theoretically exciting for doctoral and advanced researchers of climate and ocean studies.
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Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity deals with the relationship between cinema and ethics from a philosophical perspective, finding an intrinsic connection between film spectatorship and the possibility of being open to different modes of alterity.
Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher SenecaTo give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do-but it is also the closest you can come to divinity.
This interdisciplinary book brings philosophers and non-philosophers to the table to address questions of water ethics, specifically in terms of how moral questions inform decision making around water security at local, national, and international scales.
This is the story of a spiritual journey, a theological quest to find better biblical answers (ones that work in real life) to the challenging questions that plague many of us surrounding gender and sexual identity.
Skepticism, Relativism, and Religious Knowledge examines the challenges of skepticism and relativism to religious knowledge after the demise of classical foundationalism.
This innovative book proposes that what we think of as "e;moral conscience"e; is essentially the exercise of reflective judgment on the goods and ends arising in interpersonal relations, and that such judgment constitutes a form of taste.
This book analyses the features and functionality of the relationship between the law, individual or collective values and medical-scientific evidence when they have to be interpreted by judges, courts and para-jurisdictional bodies.
For too long a time, the contemporary theories of justice have been focusing on humankind as the sole bearer or claimant of justice and too little importance has been given to nature or the cosmos as the bearer of justice in its own right.
Finding Grace with God: A Phenomenological Reading of the Annunciation engages in an interweaving of phenomenology, mystical theology, and feminist philosophy to unfold a theopoetic interpretation of the narrative of the Annunciation in the Gospel of Luke.
The question of what to do with radioactive waste has dogged political administrations of nuclear-powered electricity-producing nations since the inception of the technology in the 1950s.
