Spinoza’s deductive metaphysic system states a problem in regard to the knowledge of the passions. On the one hand, the passions are explained like body’s affections, but the soul has a mutilated and confused knowledge of the body. On the…

El artículo analiza la figura del ‘saber absoluto’ con la que culminan las experiencias de la conciencia en la Fenomenología del Espíritu, tanto en su aspecto epistemológico y cartesiano de saber fundamental, como en su sentido religioso de conocimiento de…

En este texto se intenta mostrar que la radicalización de la tesis expresada por Platón en el libro X de la República no permite “apreciar” el valor que el filósofo ateniense sabe que posee la poesía, pues ella podría ser…

Despite the fact that one of the objectives of the platonic approach in The Republic about guardians’ character education is to criticize, censure, and exile the poets and the mimetic poetry as a “pedagogic resource” due to their uselessness as…

My purpose is to suggest and open a dialogue between Plato and Adorno, and for this I have chosen the concept of mimesis, a concept that plays a central role in both thinkers both epistemologically and aesthetically. While Plato uses…