LAGUNA - Revista de Filosofía

From Eco-logy to Eco-dicy: Philosophy in the Face of the Ecological Crisis

Iñaki Marieta Hernández — 2022-12-05

Once capitalism’s responsibility in the current ecological crisis is recognized, the necessary response of ecology and environmental activism is insufficient to access the essence of the techno-science that decides our way of inhabiting the planet. The “heideggerian” eco-dicy proposes from the critique of the metaphysical essence of the technique, a new understanding of dwelling that does justice to the different modalities of the living from the ontological difference in which our dwelling of the Earth finds its meaning.

Graham Harman: Between Realism and Correlationism

Brais González Arribas — 2022-12-05

This article argues that Graham Harman’s philosophy navigates between realism, an im- materialist realism in his case, in the framework of ontology and correlationism in that of epistemology, the latter aspect that he cannot avoid despite raising a post-anthropocentric thinking. To explain Harman’s theoretical proposal, we analize the central axis of his on- tology, objects, also explaining how his definition deviates from the classical perspectives on these objects, and we study the way in which they are linked to each other, an issue that will lead to defend the correlationist character of Harman’s epistemology.

The Sun of the Renaissance that Lights Up Utopias: a Comparative Study of the Political Theory of More, Campanella and Bacon

Pablo Ojeda Déniz — 2022-12-05

Renaissance utopias belong to a period when Modernity was being built within political thinking, which turns them into a nexus between classical antiquity and the Enlightment, thereby preserving for posterity a series of critical issues, such as democracy, a radical version of natural law or the need for distribution of goods. Christian humanism is also present and, together with Plato’s concept of justice, it enables these utopias to set a different course from that followed by other Renaissance political theory options, founded either on political realism (Machiavelli) or on jus naturale as a justification of an authoritarian state (Bodin). Thus utopia spreads its wings not only announcing Modernity but also the 20th century socialist horizon.

Liberal Eugenics and Habermas Critique

Tomás Hernández Mora — 2022-12-05

This paper aims to analyze Jürgen Habermas’s critique of liberal eugenics and why it should be stopped. For this purpose, the concept of liberal eugenics, its features and goals, post- metaphysics in Habermas’s philosophy, will be exposed, as well as the notions of Körper and Leib, which are three key elements that the philosopher presents to articulate his critique. Next, the importance of the naturalness of birth and reciprocal relations between indi- viduals, and how they can be affected by genetic modifications, will be explored to finally expose the measurements that Habermas proposes against the effects and consequences of genetic engineering.

Psycopolitics and Education in the New Era. (Brief Anatomy of the «Neurological Paradigm»)

María Blázquez Piqueras — 2022-12-05

The aim of this paper is to use the approaches of the Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han, on the one hand, to show the challenges that formulate and define our times and, on the other, to focus this view on education. In this sense, it is necessary to define the post-pandemic 21st century society marked by psychopolitics. Education is subject to a framework of unprecedented complexity, due to digitalisation and the acceleration of a world that is perceived as progressing, and yet is becoming increasingly ill due to an excess of positivity. The pedagogy that operates through pleasure and the new relational plane of social networks, which formulate affine and disembodied encounters, eliminates negativity. Education lends itself to a demanding examination as the starting point of this society and is seen as the place where the possibility of transformation arises. In the latter sense it is argued that philosophy in our classrooms has a crucial role to play.

Theory and Praxis from Walden

Saturnino Expósito Reyes — 2022-12-05

Es reseña de:

Henry David THOREAU, Walden, Editorial Alma, Madrid, 2021, 392 pp.

Oskar Becker and Phenomenology

José M. García Gómez del Valle — 2022-12-05

Es reseña de:

Jochen SATTLER (ed.), Oskar Becker im phänomenologischen Kontext, Wilhem Fink Verlag, München, 2020, 216 pp.

Against the Double Truth

Nerea Pin Portela — 2022-12-05

Es reseña de:

Ana DE MIGUEL, Ética para Celia. Contra la doble verdad. Penguim Random House, Grupo Editorial, Barcelona, 2021.

Laguna 51

Laguna Revista de Filosofía — 2022-12-05