This article examines the question of God in contemporary phenomenology from a strictly philosophical standpoint, namely, the scope and limit of the phenomenological method when it opens itself to phenomena that seem to exceed intentional constitution and eidetic description. From Husserl to thinkers such as Levinas, Henry, Lacoste, and especially Jean-Luc Marion, the study shows that...
African philosophical discourse presents a distinctive perspective on consciousness and selfhood that challenges Western dualistic frameworks. This paper examines how the Bantu concept of vital force (élan vital) provides a foundation for understanding consciousness as relational rather than individually contained. Drawing on Placide Tempels' pioneering work and contemporary African...
The mystical phenomenon is understood as a profound and bordeline experience of reality, where the human being reaches a state of consciousness such that it transcends the ordinary concepts with which we understand the world. This experience suggests a notion of reality according to which there is an order underlying physical phenomena (fundamental reality) and distinct from them, where...
In the present work, the author reflects on the religious experience and, in particular, about the experience that man has of God as the “foundation” of the “Power of the real”, from the philosophical perspective of Xavier Zubiri. After briefly outline the concept of experience in some milestones of philosophy, we address three issues: 1. the theological problem of man, 2. experience as...
Revista de FilosofíaJuly 24, 2020Karina Silvia Pedace, Tomás Balmaceda, Diego Lawler et al.
This work promotes the thesis that humans are naturally transhuman. In order to achieve this, we present in the first two sections some examples of technological devices assembled to human beings, and we critically review the assumptions and dichotomies on which the idea of human enhancement is based according to the ordinary transhumanist vision. Thirdly, we present the thesis of the Extended...
No seu famoso artigo “What is it like to be a bat?” (1974), Thomas Nagel sustenta que existe um ‘ponto de vista’ característico e inescrutável, não acessível objetivamente na experiência, que determina o sentido da própria experiência como evento mental. Entre recentes teorias filosóficas da mente, eventualmente, a esse elemento subjetivo correspondem os chamados qualia, i.e., propriedades...