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‘Truth was never put to worse in a free and open encounter. Where there is much desire to learn, there will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.’ Milton: Areopagitica Introduction Epidemiological studies have long indicated a significant link between social relationships and health…
Wisdom is not an abstraction. It isn’t a static state of peace, beauty, or justice. Although a wealth of philosophical treatises and literary reflections have articulated visions of existence lived wisely, finally, wisdom is about making choices in the concrete circumstances of life. The immense issues that face the human community can only be solved…
1. Introduction In this contribution, the authors do not intend to give a positive or negative answer to the question of whether or not there is a hierarchical consciousness, but they want to suggest a methodology that can help in the process of assessing it. The methodology they suggest is the systems methodology, which is…
In medieval theology, the term person was generally conceived in ontological terms. It defined, for example, the ongoing relations of the members of the Trinity to one another; Father, Son and Holy Spirit exist as one God paradoxically in virtue of their personal differences, their subsistent relations to one another.1 Likewise, Jesus of Nazareth as…
That the living world might, in some deep mysterious way, be expressive of a transcendent dimension is largely rejected by contemporary secular thinkers. Most will argue that modern science has demonstrated, at least in principle, that life in all its evolving complexity and sophistication is the inevitable product of entirely natural, unplanned processes. Biological materialism,…
Philosophical meaning of Person. The Person as a living concrete reality: its origin and constitutive elements. Logical, ethical and social consequences. Theological implications. ———————— The concept of Person needs to be clearly established by philosophical considerations that go farther than the merely measurable parameters of the physical sciences. We use the term in everyday life…
Introduction We live at a time in which there is an overload of information intoxicating out brain, making it vulnerable to computer contamination. The more information we accumulate in our brains, the less space we have to fill it up with facts from real life. So much intellectual activity is unhealthy unless we can find…
The fundamental encounter between science and religion takes place inside knowledge. If the progress of the human society is circumscribed to the scientific knowledge, we must take into account the fact that the supra-systemic rhythms, which confer meaning to the scientific process, belong ontologically to the transcendent. Thus understood, this reality will invite to dialogue…
In the view of the Islamic intellectual tradition, any solution to the crises of our times can only be found in the recovery of our true human nature. By “intellectual tradition” I mean the more sophisticated expositions of Islamic teachings found in the books of Muslim scholars known to modern historians as “philosophers” and “mystics.” This nature,…
Self it is the form that assumes in us the men the engagement of taking charge of our personal being, a being which we dispose, but which we are not propietary. This way of disposing corresponds with contractual positive and derivative forms, as the administration, the lease or the usufruct. But since this relation of…