scholarly journals Filosofía práctica. Una antigua y nueva forma de hacer filosofía

2014 ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Francisco Castillo Ávila

Resumen:La filosofía en tanto ejercicio sistemático del pensamiento ha sido entendi- da de diferentes formas a través de la historia. El presente artículo examina las diversas maneras de concebir la filosofía. Así como la ciencia se divide en ciencia teórica y ciencia práctica, la filosofía también puede ocupar esta división, es decir, teórica o especulativa y filosofía práctica o sapiencial. La filosofía teórica, propia de la academia y los especialistas, comienza con el estudio riguroso y sistemático de las obras de los grandes filósofos, de sus discípulos y críticos; en cambio, la filosofía práctica se inicia con el lema “conócete a ti mismo”. Esta última trata de resolver los problemas cotidianos de las personas con filosofía, ocupando el pensamiento de los filósofos y pensadores de todos los tiempos. A fines del siglo XX surge dentro de la filosofía práctica, lo que se ha denominado asesoramiento filosófico o consejería filosófica o terapia filosófica que tiene como ob- jetivo ayudar a las personas o grupos a resolver o enfrentar situaciones existenciales a partir de los pensamientos de los filósofos.Palabras clave: Filosofía - filosofía práctica - asesoramiento filosófico - asesor filosófico.Abstract:Philosophy, due to several systematic practice of thinking, has been understood in different ways through history. The present paper exa- mines diverse forms of philosophy conception. As the science is divided in theoretical and practical; philosophy also may use this classification, i.e. theoretical or speculative and practical or sapiental philosophy. Theoretical philosophy, proper to the academy and specialists starts the exhaustive and systematic study of great thinkers, their disciples and their critics work. Instead, practical philosophy begins with the motto “know yourself”. This one intends to solve common problems of people with philosophy, using thoughts of philosophers and thinkers of all ti- mes. In late XX century emerged within the practical philosophy, which has been called philosophic consulting, advicing or therapy that has as objective to help people or groups to solve or face existential situations from philosophers thinking.Keywords: Philosophy – practical philosophy – philosophic consulting – philosophic consult

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (72) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Alfredo Gómez Estrada ◽  
Josefina Elizabeth Villa

El estudio sistemático del turismo en Baja California en la primera mitad del siglo XX es todavía una tarea por hacer. Este trabajo, basado en análisis documental, es un primer acercamiento al tema, aunque enfocado en Tijuana. La novedad es la utilización de la prensa estadounidense y mexicana como fuente principal, que se complementa con documentos históricos. Se establecen las características generales de las actividades turísticas en la localidad, se describe y se explica la continuidad y los cambios más importantes ocurridos en el turismo entre 1920 y 1949. Se demuestra que los turistas llegaron en masa y que las apuestas y los juegos de azar atrajeron multitudes. También se documentan los cambios relevantes en el perfil del turista estadounidense y la ampliación de la demanda de servicios sexuales en la década de 1940.Continuity and changes in tourism activities in Tijuana, 1920-1949The systematic study of tourism in Baja California in the first half of the 20th century is still a task to be done. This paper, based on documentary analysis, is a first approach to the subject, although focused on Tijuana. What is the new is the use of the American and Mexican press as the main source, along with historical documents. General characteristics of tourism activities in the locality are established, and continuity and the most important changes taking place in tourism between 1920 and 1949 are described and explained. It was proven that tourists arrived en masse, and betting and gambling attracted crowds. Also, relevant changes in the American tourists profile and the increase in the demand for sexual services in the 1940s are documented.


Author(s):  
Jacqueline Feke

This chapter demonstrates how Ptolemy's distinctly mathematical ethics emerges from his response to a contemporary debate over the relationship between theoretical and practical philosophy. He first asserts that the two are independent, differentiated by the manner in which one attains virtues in each domain, whether by instruction or continuous activity. Thereafter, he diminishes the distinction by revealing how they relate. Theoretical philosophy, specifically mathematics, transforms the soul. The study of astronomical objects—the movements and configurations of heavenly bodies—reveals their constancy, good order, commensurability, and calm. Mathematicians, aided by habit, come to appreciate these qualities and transform their souls into a fine and well-ordered state. Organizing their actions in accordance with astronomical theories, they never forget their ultimate objective, the divine-like condition of the soul. The study of mathematics is crucial to obtaining this good life.


Author(s):  
Alfred Langewand

From 1798, Herbart developed a ‘realistic’ alternative to the idealistic philosophy of Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel. His theoretical philosophy, which centres around metaphysics and psychology, is sharply critical of the idealistic concept of subjectivity. His practical philosophy rests on ethics and educational theory, each of which presumes the existence of the other.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zrinka Serventi

Virginia L. Campbell in her book “The Tombs ofPompeii: Organization, Space and Society” offers acomprehensive overview of graves, tombs and developmentof the necropoleis in Pompeii throughaspects of spatial and social organization. The bookis organized in seven chapters, three appendices(catalogues of graves, tombs and funerary inscriptions),index, and illustrations which correspondwell to the text. The book is a result of researchundertaken by the author for her dissertation basedon analysis of extensive documentation and seriesof very diverse scientific works dealing with Pompeiiand their necropoleis but concentrating mostlyon the most famous and most decorative finds andtombs without systematic study of entire scopeof the sepulchral area. In her study the author attemptedto solve some crucial questions, primarilyif detailed analysis of each individual burial areacan reveal social, economic, legal or cult traditionsand regulations (possibly specific only for Pompeii);ways in which funerary monuments reflect behaviourof the individuals or groups, and administrativeprocedures necessary for organization of afuneral. The author answers these questions in thediscussion parts of the book, from the third to thesixth chapter.


Author(s):  
Andrew Norris

This chapter presents Cavell’s Emersonian perfectionism as a response to and interpretation of Kant. For Cavell, receptivity is the key to Emerson’s inheritance of Kant’s theoretical philosophy, as partiality is the key to his inheritance of Kant’s practical philosophy. Partiality for Emerson names both the individual agent’s inherent lack and its want for change and growth. The shameful experience of lack is the precondition for the transformative encounter with an exemplary other who enables the self’s conversion of the nihilistic conformity of everyday life as it is now lived. The chapter argues that Cavell’s insistence that Emersonian perfectionism sets itself against any idea of ultimate perfection does not condemn Cavell’s agents to an endless and hence nihilistic pursuit of an unrealizable telos, as it might seem, but instead furnishes the basis for democratic hope.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
José Solana Dueso

El objeto de este texto es abordar algunos aspectos de las ideas políticas de Aristóteles y, en particular, de su actitud y de sus argumentos sobre la democracia. A diferencia de Jaeger, el trabajo se desarrolla desde el supuesto de que el pensamiento de Aristóteles se configura en un proceso de tensión constante, y no necesariamente lineal, entre los dos grandes pensadores que le precedieron: Protágoras y Platón.  Esta doble tensión hace emerger todo un entramado teórico, relacionado sobre todo con la filosofía práctica, pero con profundas raíces en la filosofía teórica, en el que Aristóteles se alinea con las tesis protagóricas. Una de ellas es la defensa del sistema democrático. El artículo muestra, no solo que Aristóteles es partidario de la democracia como mejor forma de constitución, sino que solo la democracia satisface las condiciones de una autoridad política, por el hecho de que es la justicia, virtud moral por antonomasia, la que exige ejercer el mando por turno y que todos los ciudadanos manden en un momento y obedezcan en otro. TITLE: Aristotle and Democracy ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to address some aspects of Aristotle's political ideas and, in particular, his attitude and his arguments about democracy. Unlike Jaeger's approach, the paper starts from the assumption that Aristotle's thinking is shaped by a process of constant, and not necessarily linear, tension between the two great thinkers who preceded him: not only Plato but also Protagoras. This dual tension brings to the surface a theoretical framework, related above all to practical philosophy, but with deep roots in theoretical philosophy, in which Aristotle is aligned with theses of Protagoras. One of them is the defense of the democratic system. The article shows, not only that Aristotle favors democracy as the best form of constitution, but that only democracy satisfies the conditions of a political authority, because it is justice, the moral virtue par excellence, which demands to exercise the command by turn and that all the citizens command in one moment and obey in another. 


2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Cüneyt Kaya

AbstractThe article aims to demonstrate that Avicenna's (d. 428/1037) centrality in Islamic intellectual history is not restricted to the branches of theoretical philosophy; rather, he also has had a deep and strong influence on the conception of practical philosophy until modern times. I will discuss the impact of Avicenna's view of practical philosophy by analyzing his different classifications of practical philosophy throughout his career and the factors behind his disregard for practical philosophy in his philosophicalsummason the basis of his view of the relationship between philosophy andšarīʿa. To demonstrate my argument regarding Avicenna's influence on the conception of practical philosophy in Islamic tradition, I will refer to major works on the classification of sciences, and the commentaries (šurūḥ) and glosses (ḥāwāšī) on the two most important and widely circulated philosophicalsummasin the post-Avicennan philosophy, which are al-Abharī's (d. 663/1264)Hidāyat al-ḥikmaand al-Kātibī's (d. 675/1276)Ḥikmat al-ʿayn.


Philosophy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Watkins

The historical and systematic importance of Kant’s philosophy can hardly be exaggerated. The revolutionary contribution it made to earlier modern philosophy, the influence it had on the subsequent course of philosophical thought, and the significance it has for an understanding of our current situation are unparalleled. Given its importance, it is not surprising that scholarship on Kant’s philosophy has also been extremely rich, with attention being paid both to specific sections of Kant’s famous Critique of Pure Reason and to the systematic topics that are treated therein. While Kant’s practical philosophy and aesthetics are revolutionary in their own right, the focus in the present context is on Kant’s theoretical philosophy, which is expressed primarily, though not exclusively, in the Critique of Pure Reason.


2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa McBay Merritt

It is widely supposed that the principal task of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is to carry out some kind of analysis of experience. Commentators as profoundly at odds on fundamental points of interpretation as P. F. Strawson and Patricia Kitcher share this supposition. In a letter to J. S. Beck, Kant seems to endorse this view himself, referring to some unspecified stretch of the Critique as an ‘analysis of experience in general’. The idea that the Critique is engaged in an analysis of experience accords well with an attractive conception of Critical philosophy as making something explicit that is generally only implicit in our cognitive lives. After all, the categorical imperative is no innovation of Kant's practical philosophy, but rather is meant to be revealed as the animating principle of ‘ordinary moral rational cognition’. Likewise, the principles revealed in Kant's theoretical philosophy should be nothing other than the principles that necessarily animate ordinary empirical cognition; and Kant says that experience is, or is a mode of, empirical cognition. For this reason, it is undeniably compelling to think of the Critique as offering some kind of analysis of experience.


Author(s):  
Yolanda Estes

In 1811, Schopenhauer moved to Berlin, where he remained until 1813. During this time, he encountered J. G. Fichte, attending his lectures on The Facts of Consciousness (1812) and the Wissenschaftslehre (1812). Moreover, he read many of Fichte’s earlier works, including System of Ethics: According to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre (1798) and Foundations of Natural Right: According to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre (1796/97). In addition to these more academic lectures and writings, he read one of Fichte’s last popular works, Way to the Blessed Life: Or also, the Religionslehre (1806). Schopenhauer soon managed to familiarize himself with the main parts of the Wissenschaftslehre: theoretical philosophy, practical philosophy, and philosophy of the postulates. He kept notes—found in his Manuscript Remains—of his sojourns in Fichte’s transcendental idealism, or Wissenschaftsleere as he deridingly called it. In later years, he returned to Fichte’s philosophy—sometimes explicitly and sometimes implicitly—in the Basis of Morality (1840) and the World as Will and Representation (1859). In this chapter, the author uses both Schopenhauer’s early notes in the Manuscript Remains and his later published writings to show how he understood Fichte’s transcendental idealism, where he disagreed with it, and where he (sometimes grudgingly) acknowledged its value. The author argues that while Fichte and Schopenhauer share many assumptions about philosophy and subjectivity, they arrive at quite different conclusions about the ultimate value of human striving.


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