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La ley moral natural según Francisco Suárez
Authors: BACIERO RUIZ Francisco T.
Published: May 2018

Suárez undertakes systematic study of natural moral law in Book II of De legibus, which is integrally consecrated to the study of the eternal law, natural right and the right of nations. In confrontation, among others, with the thesis of Gabriel Vázquez, Suárez maintains the natural moral law is a divine obligatory law or command, which orders to do or to avoid that which is «fitting» or «unfitting» with the human rational nature. Divine Mind and Will contribute thus, each within the bounds of his own sphere, towards the promulgation of the natural moral law.
Nómos émpsychos. El tratado "De Iosepho" de Filón de Alejandría / Nómos émpsychos. The Treatise "De Iosepho" by Philo of Alexandria
Authors: GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ Martín
Published: May 2018

Analysis of a capital text, De Iosepho (On Joseph), to understand the political philosophy of Philo of Alexandria. This autor, according to its religious creed (judaism) and its philosophy affinities (pythagoreanism, heracliteanism, platonism, aristotelianism, stoicism, pyrrhonism and neoplatonism), praises the monarchical state (the Theocracy of the Pentateuch would be the model, he hellenistic monarchies the copy), that reinterprets in terms of ethnos, religion and culture. The morarch should embody or to be the «Living Law» (Nomos Empsychos).
Una aproximación al sentido de la filosofía en el Renacimiento del siglo XII / An Introduction to the Meaning of "Philosophy" in 12th Century Renaissance
Authors: MANTAS ESPAÑA Pedro
Published: May 2018

The question about the meaning of philosophy cannot be reducen to a recognition of the charanter of «Philosophy» in Adelard of Bath’s treatise On the same and the different, i.e., not to be reduced to a scholar compilation on the trívium and the quadrivium. Even when the work adopts the form of a «protrepticon», its exposition on the «arts» points further tan what we can take as an elementary knowledge, not just in the skills a «master» should got at hand, but also in the subject matters taken regularly in the so called «french schools». Adelard’s conception of philosophy points to a renewal wich, in a sense, is going to be an example of a new attitude on the knowledge that the history of intellect has ascribe to the stream of changes attributed to the «Renaissance of the 12th Century».
Dios, libertad y amor en Duns Escoto / God, Freedom and Love in Duns Scot
Authors: VERDÚ BERGANZA Ignacio
Published: May 2018

This paper examines the value awarded by Duns Escoto to the defence of god -understood as Lave- who acts in a completely free mannner and is omnipotent. I also studies the implications of his philosophical position when confrontingthe relationships between faith and reason, theology and philosophy, intellect and will, necessity and contingency. His analysis of The Philosopher, Aristotle, is also discussed.
Trazos de estética medieval / Strokes of Medieval Aesthetics
Authors: SEGURÓ MENDLEWICZ Miquel
Published: May 2018

This article discusses the key features of the medieval aesthetics. Its proposal is to «clarify» how are unjustified the accusations of obscurantism, while claiming its relevance to the general history of culture. The medieval aesthetics also helps us to better understand the view of the reality of an era that still remains overly. ignored.
La verdad como “objetividad” en la filosofía de Duns Escoto / The Truth Like “Objetivism” in the Scotist’s Philosophy
Authors: MIRALBELL Ignacio
Published: May 2018

More than love to the truth, in this work we study the scotist´s conception of the truth. For Scotus, the object known is real, causes in the faculty the act of knowing; therefore, it is previous to the act. The truth consists in the similarity of the act of knowledge with the mental object: objectivism. With that thesis he separates of the previous medieval thought, for which the mental object is not real, but intentional: the mental object, not the act, is similar to the reality. This scotist´s thesis is a precedent of the posterior theory of knowledge.
Tres aportes al concepto de persona: Boecio (substancia), Ricardo de San Víctor (existencia) y Escoto (incomunicabilidad) / Three Settlements in the Concept of Person: Boethius (substance), Richard of St. Victor (Existence) and Scotus (Incommunicability)
Authors: CULLETON Alfredo
Published: May 2018

The philosophical concept of person has a prominent role both in understanding the human being as most important in modern debates about ethics, politics and law. In this article we’ll discuss some aspects of the idea of person, following the path in search of their genealogy, especially in the most important area of developing this concept, the Christian debate on Trinitarian theology. Our challenge will be to support the efforts of some intellectuals in seeking to resolve the dialectical tension between what is proper to the individual and what is common to all. We’ll dedicate in this case to the work of Boethius, Richard of St. Victor and Scotus on this matter.
Del Viejo al Nuevo Mundo: el tránsito de la noción de dominio y derecho natural de Francisco de Vitoria a Alonso de la Veracruz / From Old to New World: the Transition of the Concept on Dominium and Natural Rights in Francisco de Vitoria and Alonso de la Veracruz
Authors: ASPE ARMELLA Virginia
Published: May 2018

This article studies Francisco de Vitoria´s relectio De Indis and Alonso de la Veracruz´s Speculum Coniugiorum relectio proving important differences on either texts. Both authors disert on dominium and natural rights, but Vitoria recognizes a more important influence of the authority and external causes on moral acts whereas de la Veracruz gives all the importance to intrinsic principles of human decisions. Aspe argues that these differences are due to two different elements involved on Alonso´s arguments: his direct contact within american indians, while Vitoria never came to America and didn´t experienced the encounter of «the others», and, a more profound philosophical influence from Escoto and moderate nominalist Jean Charlier Gerson.
Scito te ipsum. La responsabilidad individual y los penitenciales del siglo XII / Scito te ipsum. Individual Responsibility and 12th Century Penitentials
Authors: RAÑA DAFONTE César
Published: May 2018

In this paper we introduce the great innovation that takes place in the XIIth century in relation to individual responsibility; this novelty is analyzed in contraposition to what happened in previous centuries of the Early Middle Ages. The main source used are the Penitential Books, specially the one by Alan of Lille.
El Liber novus de anima rationali de Ramon Llull dentro del discurso psicológico del siglo XIII / The Liber Novus de anima rationali by Ramon Llull and Its Place Within the Psychological Discourse of the 13th century
Authors: LÓPEZ ALCALDE Celia
Published: May 2018

The aim of this article is to show the relationship between the Liber nouus de anima rationali, a work by Ramon Llull (Mallorca, 1232-1316), and the psychological discourse in the thirtheenth century, by means of an analysis of its sources and the doctrinal and thematic context.
El debate actual entre aristotélicos y tomistas sobre el Esse ipsum / The Recent Debate Between Aristotelians and Thomists About Esse ipsum
Authors: GARCÍA-LORENTE José A.
Published: May 2018

This article first presents the aristotelian criticism of the conception of God as Esse ipsum subsistens in Thomas Aquinas, through one of the most important aristotelian philosophers today, Enrico Berti. Then the answer offered by the thomist Stephen L. Brock in his defense of the ipsum esse is set forth, with reference to the recent disputes regarding this issue in the so-called «analytical thomism». The aim is to determine the status of the recent debate between aristotelians and thomists regarding the question of God as Esse ipsum subsistens, in order to ascertain whether the historical incompatibility between the two metaphysical conceptions is to be considered definitive.
La división y el conflicto interior de la voluntad humana, y su resolución en el amor, según Agustín de Hipona / Inner Division and Conflict of Human Will, and its Resolution in Love, according to Augustine of Hippo
Authors: GARCÍA VALIÑO ABÓS Javier
Published: May 2018

The Augustine’s doctrine on human will is proposed as an original contribution. His conception of will as act (motus animi) and power of the soul (vis animi) is explained. The main question is the inner division or breaking of the will (duality, ambivalent will), and the conflict between the two wills. Finally and shortly, we examine love (dilectio, caritas) as the Augustine’s «solution» (?) to this problem: the resolution of the inner conflict of the will through his transformation in love.
Causa y finitud en M. Eckhart / Cause and Finity in M. Eckart
Authors: SOTO-BRUNA María J.
Published: May 2018

The eckhartian distinction between created and non-created being is developed in this paper into the distinction between God and creature and thence to the metaphysic study of the finite. In a second instance, the comprehension of M. Eckhart is reviewed regarding the ontological status of creature and causality. The author finally introduces the complex idea of the Logos, that is, the creator’s comprehension of the creature, an issue discussed with their personal differences by Thomas Aquinas and Eckhart.
Las disputas interreligiosas bajomedievales. Sus presupuestos teóricos: Ramón Llull / Interfaith Mediaeval Disputes. Theoretical Budgets: Raymond Llull
Authors: LÉRTORA MENDOZA Celina A.
Published: May 2018

In the late Middle Ages and especially in the ss. xiv and xv, we see a proliferation of interfaith disputes between Christians, Muslims and Jews, that although somewhat reissue previous practices have, for quantity, quality theoretical and practical consequences, a historical novelty. Can be classified as 1. preaching, 2. education and 3. dispute. Ramon Llull can be considered a pioneer of interreligious dialogue between Western monotheisms, in the sense of having proposed a new approach to the controversies that had centuries of experience when he wrote. While all his work, in a sense, it contributes to the idea of basing the rationality of Christian belief several works specifically devoted to interreligious dialogue, including Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men (Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis, 1274-1276) posed —fictional— as the reason and purpose of their efforts. An important reason to be interested in thinking luliano is that, in some respects, the problems involved in the dialogue are repeated throughout the centuries until today. There are three aspects of his thought that are interesting for their originality and the ability to compare and draw analogies and differences with the current project: 1.Integrate the debate in the context of rationality, but in a broader way than syllogistic correction or that the question of the truth or falsity of assertions isolated. 2.Find a specific objective, clear and can be shared by the partners. 3.Give agnosticism own space.
Anselm on Truth and Goodness
Authors: RAMOS Alice
Published: May 2018

St. Anselm provides us with a metaphysics of the Logos, whereby things are true in relation to the Divine Intellect, or by the one first truth. This type of metaphysics has ethical implications, for the truth of man’s essence needs to be brought to completion through right action. Rectitude of the rational creature’s will is necessary for man’s doing the truth or standing in the truth. This paper shows that the actualization of man’s essence can only be achieved through the return of the rational creature to the divine Truth, which is its exemplary and final cause.
Manifestar a Dios en el ser y en el obrar: la creación como orden jerárquico en el Comentario a las Sentencias de Sto. Tomás de Aquino / The Manifestation of God in Being and in Action: Creation as Hierarchical Order in the Commentary on the Sentences of Thomas Aquinas
Authors: PERPERE VIÑUALES Álvaro
Published: May 2018

In the Commentary on the Sentences of Thomas Aquinas, creation is conceived as a “hierarchical order”. This idea, which he takes from Dionysius the Areopagite, is related to the concept of similitude used to explain the relation between God and his creation, and to the idea that he create d it to manifest his goodness. In this article I show the importance that this idea of hierarchical order has when it is applied to creation in this early work of the Dominican friar. In the first place, I analyze the definition of hierarchy, and I especially focus on its relation with the idea of similitude and the importance Aquinas gives to the “law of hierarchy” as a law that ordains not only being but also the action of beings.
Omar Khayyám (1040/62-1131/32) y la filosofía árabe / Omar Khayyám (1040/62-1131/32) and Arab philosophy
Authors: GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ Martín
Published: May 2018

This article analyzes the figure of Omar Khayyam (Nîsâbur, Persia, ca. 1040/62,- ca. 1131/32, Nîsâbur) by looking at his famous quatrains or rubayat,focusing on the reception and review of the Arab philosophies of his time, and the defense that he makes of Persian Archaic, Zoroastrian, Mazdean and Manichean culture and philosophy.
El atributo “ciencia” como predicado esencial de Dios / «Science» as an Essential Predicate of God
Authors: FELIPE MENDOZA José M.
Published: May 2018

Thomas Aquinas summarizes almost exclusively the attribute of knowledge in God in Q. D. De Veritate II: De scientia Dei. The absence of confrontation, in its substance, between this text and contemporary studies, referring primarily to the Sacred Doctrine or Theology as science, are treated in this paper integrally with those investigations. However, the approaches differ substantially. In those studies the metaphysical question for theology as a science is prioritized; in this work, however, the essence of God as a science is highlighted.
El Innatismo de las Cogniciones Primarias y la Adquisición del Conocimiento en «tahsīl al-sa’āda» de al-Fārābī / The Innatism of Primary Cognitions and the Acquisition of Knowledge in al-Fārābī’s «tahsīl al-sa’āda»
Authors: MOREIRA ALANIZ Nicolás
Published: May 2018

In this treatise, al-Fārābī refers to mental acquisition of certain elementary principles of knowledge or cognitions that are the primary basis of any demonstrative process; and this means that cognitions, which are in our intellect, are independent of all experience. The innate character of cognitions is treated in his other works, as is their nature, e.g., whether they are content-ideas or dispositio.
El Concepto de pobreza espiritual en la obra de Marguerite Porète y en el pensamiento tardío de Meister Eckhart / The Concept of Spiritual Poverty in Marguerite Porète's Work and in the Late Thought of Meister Eckhart
Authors: BAEZA GARCÍA Ricardo
Published: May 2018

As this article shows, the closeness between the work of the French Beguine and the late sermons in German by Meister Eckhart is perceptible. It is evident mainly through the analysis that both authors made of spiritual poverty. Nevertheless, the present work also reveals the fundamental differences that exist between the two mystics. Finally, it indicates the philosophical relevance of these two paradigmatic forms of mystical discourse.
Elementos esenciales de lo bello en la Summa de Bono de Ulrico de Estrasburgo / Essential Elements of the Beautiful in the Summa de Bono of Ulrich of Strasbourg
Authors: COSTARELLI BRANDI Hugo
Published: May 2018

Within the deep philosophical reflection of the thirteenth century are commonly heard names such as Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure. However, little is said of those disciples of lesser brilliance who spread the thought of their teachers. Such is the case of Ulrich of Strasbourg. This Dominican friar, a fellow student of Thomas Aquinas in Cologne, studied under Albertus Magnus the De Divinis nominibus of Pseudo-Dionysius. Years later, Ulrich wrote a work called Summa de bono where, in dealing with beauty, a unique Neoplatonic synthesis operates, but from the original perspective of his master. This paper analyses the concept of beauty present in Ulrich of Strasbourg to show how there is as much clear dependence on Albertian Neoplatonism as there is originality in the presentation of the topic.
Revisitando I Dialogus V, capítulos 14-22 / Revisiting Dialogus V, Chapters 14-22
Authors: DE C. R. DE SOUZA José Antônio
Published: May 2018

This paper, which gives continuity to another article, analyzes the content of I Dialogus V, 14-22 and, in an appendix, presents our Portuguese translation of this excerpt. In these chapters, the Inceptor Venerabilis discusses whether St. Peter and the Roman Church possess primacy over all other apostles and churches; andwhether this primacy is granted by God himself. Ockham first presents, not ad litteram, the opinion of those who refute the thesis that Christ did not give primacy to Peter and the Roman Church. Then, because this thesis fully deflates papal power, he proposes a contrary thesis based on five proofs. We conclude that Ockham’s unnamed opponent is Marsilius of Padua, whose opinions are in his Defensor Pacis.
Fomes Pecatti y sindéresis en Santo Tomás de Aquino / Fomes pecatti and Synderesis in Saint Thomas Aquinas
Authors: MORANDÍN AHUERMA Fabio
Published: May 2018

This paper addresses the problem of evil from the perspective of St. Thomas Aquinas. It argues that, for Aquinas, the nature of moral evil is in the individual who, due to a disordered reason, departs from the pursuit of the good that is inherent to being. Synderesis is the only indissoluble bridge that man has with natural law and even with the eternal. Will converted into noluntas guides man intrinsically to evil acts, but synderesis, as a power with a natural habit, is the best guide for the contingent decision-making under the rubric of the first practical principles from the transcendent.
Una ruptura en la ordenación del saber de las enciclopedias medievales. El Invencionario (1474) de Alfonso de Toledo
Authors: FUENTES HERREROS José L.
Published: May 2018

If Alfonso de Toledo's encyclopedia of knowledge is situated within the encyclopedic tradition, the Invencionario, 1474, is studied, highlighting the break it made with respect to the medieval order and its encyclopedias, a break which announced a new ordering of knowledge and which manifests a change of age: the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
Análisis histórico-crítico del argumento ansemiano según Ángel Amor Rubial
Authors: RAÑA DAFONTE César
Published: May 2018

This article presents the Galician philosopher, Angel Amor Ruibal, as a historian of medieval philosophy. His study of St. Anselm's arguments for the existence of God is adduced as an example of his hostoriographic style.
La polémica de Pedro Atarrabia (M. 1347) con Pedro Aureolo (M. 1322) sobre la intuición del no-existente
Authors: AZANZA Ana
Published: May 2018

Pedro of Atarrabia (d. 1348), scotist philosopher, arrives, through a quodlibetal subject, to the difference between intuition and abstraction, in all that refers to the knowledge of existence. Atarrabia thinks that abstraction needs subordinate «species» while intuition does not need them. He rejects his contemporary, Petrus Aureolus, who pretends that non-existent objects can be known by intuition.
La teoría del concepto de la Edad Media como antecedente de la Edad Moderna
Authors: BEUCHOT Mauricio
Published: May 2018

Through this work I pretend to show some medieval backgrounds about theories of «concept» wich have appeared in modernity, e. g., Descartes, Berkeley and Kant. After doing an historical running over cognoscitive function of «concept» in thomism and franciscan philosophy, we get to «via moderna» or nominalism, in wich the matter of Knowing prevails over the question of Being. Francisco Suarez has started out the way towards modernity, giving priority to constructive parts of knowledge.
Fe, razón y hermenéutica en el pensamiento de los judíos hispanos
Authors: SÁENZ-BADILLOS Ángel
Published: May 2018

Faith, reason and hermeneutic in the thought of The Spanish Jews. The history of the Jewish Philosophy differenciates two big tendencies among the Spanish Jews in the Middle Ages: the philosophy and the cabbala. However I think that we must take into consideration other aspects such as the mussulman culture and religion, the living together with the Christian culture and the contact with the European Jews whose problem was similar to the difficulties of the Spanish Jews.
Las disputaciones metafísicas de Francisco Suárez S.J., su inspiración y algunas de sus líneas maestras. En el IV centenario de la primera edición (1597-1997)
Authors: FERNÁNDEZ BURILLO Santiago
Published: May 2018

Four centuries after the first edition of Disputationes Metaphysicae (1597), that vast work is still the greatest issue from the Spanish Philosophy. F. Suarez is the author of one of the most important synthesis of the Scholar Philosophy. The key of everything he means, and also of "Disputationes", can be found in the idea of freedom in causality and action. From this concept, some topics are shown: act and potentiality, cause, creation, etc. We explain Suarez's Metaphysics from an existential point of view and refuse the accusation of abstractism.
Actitudes proposicionales y conocimiento sensible en Tomás de Aquino
Authors: TELLKAMP Jörg Alejandro
Published: May 2018

Propositional attitudes and sensible knowledge in Thomas Aquinas. The traditional approach to Thomas Aquinas' theory of knowledge suggests that complex, intentional knowledge is only available to the intellect. Against this, there is strong evidence for an alternative view, which holds that the perceptual grasp of the sensible world renders a complex, however, different kind of knowledge. An analysis of Aquinas' theory of the sensibles reveals a stance which shows a striking resemblance to modem Folk Psychology, i.e., a strong commitment to describe animal and human perception and behavior in terms of daily life experience of singular objects.
Vicente Muñoz Delgado y Ángel Amor Ruibal
Authors: RAÑA DAFONTE César
Published: May 2018

Vicente Muñoz Delgado and Angel Amor Ruibal. With this work I pretend to introduce the readers to Vicente Muñoz Delgado like a studious and spreader of Angel Amor Ruibal's philosophy. To achieve this objective I'm going to take into account the most interesting five Writings by the professor Muñoz which deal with the exceptional philosopher from Santiago de Compostela.
La pervivencia del Corpus Teológico Ciceroniano en España
Authors: ESCOBAR Ángel
Published: May 2018

The transmission of Cicero's theological works in Spain.The so-called 'theological' works of Cicero (De natura deorum, De divinatione, De Jato, and his partial translation of Platonic Timaeus) were highly valued from late antiquity on, and had a very tich influence on European medieval literature. However, the transmission of these philosophical dialogues seems to have been very scarce and mainly indirect in Spain until the fourteenth century, only a little more significant in fifteenth and sixteenth century, probably because of the difficulties in adapting the sceptical basis of the Ciceronian thought to the Christian orthodoxy, in spite of the humanistic attempts in this direction.
Entre el tiempo y la etemidad: la idea de la eviternidad en el pensamiento de Raimundo Lulio
Authors: REINHARDT Klaus
Published: May 2018

The subject of this article is Lulrs concept of eviernity which mediates between the eternity of God and the temporality of man. The first paragraph points out the salient importance of this topic in the work of Ramon Lull, particulary in his outstanding enciclopedia Arbor scientiae. After a glance backward at the previous history of the Lullian idea (second paragraph), the third paragraph sets forth that with his notion of eviternity Lull does not associate the special time of angels; unlike other medieval theologians for him eviternity is an escathological concept which signifies the measurement of the duration of a life in damnation or salvation. The article concludes with a view at a contemporary theological dispute about the usability of "aevum" as a term of the doctrine of eternal life.
Llull et l'alterité culturelle
Authors: URVOY Dominique
Published: May 2018

In which way a medieval Thinker can be used as a Model for the modem Reflection upon the Civilizations' Confrontation? We are studying successively the Character's concretual Situation toward the cultural Background of his Public, his Perception of spiritual Needs of his Audience, and at last his possible Mistakes and its Lessons. In Conclusion, the Necessity of not limiting ourselves at the Examination of textual Influencies.
Estética y teoría de la sensibilidad en el pensamiento andalusí
Authors: PUERTA VÍLCHEZ José M.
Published: May 2018

Understanding Aesthetics in it's etymological meaning as the "science of the perception" makes any study of the theory of the sensibility essential to understand a given aesthetics. Moreover, theories of sensibility and knowledge in Arabic and Islamic classical culture, have hardly been probed in it's aesthetic dimension. As a result of this, the spread of conceptualizations about Arabic and Islamic aesthetics has, in many cases, sunk in a sea of imprecisions and prejudgements. In the following pages, we present an approximation of these topics through works of greats thinkers from Al-Andalus such as Ibn Hazm, Ibn Bayya, Ibn Tufayl, Ibn Rusd, Hazim al-Qartayanni, Ibn 'Arabi and Ibn Jaldun, in whose works we appreciate a clear, though diverse, intention of constituting a cognizant and percipient human subject, ethically and aesthetically defined, across psychologies and concepts that we will also discover in the construction of Aesthetics in the West.
Religión y razón en Maimónides
Authors: DÍAZ ESTEBAN Fernando
Published: May 2018

From his early youth, Maimonides had for aim to apply rationality using the Aristetelian Logic. He brings the alegoric interpretation to the Bible text when it is in conflict with the Reason; he systematizes the juridical-religious chaotic casuistric of the whole of the traditional Oral Law and set up 13 dogmas for the Jewish religion. He separates off people's beliefs from the speculation of the intelectual. There is a duality between the religious judge and the rationalist thinker, perhaps sins his childhood problems.
Hacia el método genealógico. De W. Rolewinck a Erasmo de Rotterdam
Authors: FUENTES HERREROS José L.
Published: May 2018

Taking Nietzsche's II Untimely Meditations and the uses of history he proposes, the aim is to show how history and philosophy of history become constituded as knowledge and genealogical method in the transition from the Medieval Philosophy to the Renaissance, particularly and principally from W Rolewinck to Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Anima, spiritus, mens y animus en la Suma contra los Gentiles de Tomás de Aquino
Authors: MARTÍ ANDRÉS Gabriel
Published: May 2018

The modem diversification of the know ledges about the human beings has become to a diversificated vision of the anthropology of Saint Tomas. It is imposed a revived return to this anthropology that shows the structural unity that soul and man have for the author. The work will be centred in the three thesis that articulate the teary of Saint Tomas about the spirit and, concretely, the exposition our author makes in Summa contra gentiles, main work in his production which, nevertheless, has been so rejected.
San Agustín, san Gregorio y san Isidoro ante el problema de las estrellas: fundamentos para el rechazo frontal de la astrología
Authors: DE VICENTE GARCÍA Luis M.
Published: May 2018

This article studies the thought of those Holy Fathers who most vigorously opposed Astrology (Saint Augustine, Saint Gregory, and Saint Isidore) as the primary source of negative arguments in the medieval Christian debate about the validity of Astrology until the arrival of translations of Arabic astronomical works.
La naturaleza como clamor del silencio: la doctrina de la teofanía según Eriúgena
Authors: BAUCHWITZ Oscar Federico
Published: May 2018

The doctrine of theophany is one of the central point of the philosophy of John Scot, called Eriugena. In this doctrine Neoplatonic elements evidence the relation between Creator and Creation and express the significance of the fundamental diference that determines Nature as apparition and concealment.
La doctrina del entendimiento en Avicena
Authors: CRUZ HERNÁNDEZ Miguel
Published: May 2018

Avicenna's doctrine about the active intellect is a Islamic interpretation of aristotelical tradition. Because of significance on medieval scholasticism, on translate the main texts of Avicenna.
El intelecto agente en Al-Farabi, un comentario a su epístola sobre el intelecto
Authors: RAMÓN GUERRERO Rafael
Published: May 2018

In this volume of the Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval I present a Spanish translation of Al-Farabi's Epistle on the intellect. In this article, the author claims to show the context in that this work is located and to offer a brief comment, in which stands out the central paper that the Active Intellect plays in the thought of Al-Farabi.
El lugar del intelecto agente en el pensamiento de Avempace
Authors: LOMBA FUENTES Joaquín
Published: May 2018

The purpose of this article is to expound the very original role of the Agent Intellect in the In Bayya's (Avempace) philosophy and the steps and levels of knowledge to achieve the «mystical union» with it (the final goal of man): the potential or material intellect, the intellect in fact, the acquired intellect and, finally, the Agent Intellect in which the essences are contemplated without material and individual substratum, as pure intelligibles, and the cognoscent subject and the object are identical. This ultimate stage and perfection is a gift that God gives to man, after his natural effort. In this conception there is an original transit from the gnoseological level to the existential and metaphysical one. For the rest, Avempace follows Plato, Aristotle, the Encyclopaedia Rasa'il ijwan al-safa and others.
El estatuto del entendimiento agente en la obra de san Alberto Magno
Authors: GARCÍA-CUADRADO José A.
Published: May 2018

The Averroistic Monopsychism could not be incorporated to the Christian thought to darken the idea of the immortality of the personal soul. Albert the Great, tries to make a synthesis of the Arab doctrines and the Doctrine of Divine Illumination. The conclusion is a proposal -not systematize- but where it is possible to found the distinction at personal level between intellect agent and possible intellect, in analogous way to the distinction essence/act of being.
El entendimiento agente según Tomás de Aquino
Authors: SELLÉS Juan F.
Published: May 2018

The "intellectus agens" is the zenith of the theory of the human knowledge according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. It is personal in each human being: one with the being of the human person. Separated from the body, without mixture with it, impassible and always in act. Innate cognoscitive light. It proceeds from God, and from Him it participates natural and supernaturally. Through the "intellectus agens" we are free and responsible. It permits to know everything, because it activates the different human cognoscitive faculties. It uses the innate habits as instruments. It is perpetual, but after this life it will no know as now.
Entendimiento agente y abstracción en Duns Escoto
Authors: PÉREZ-ESTÉVEZ Antonio
Published: May 2018

Duns Scotus, following the saying that "without the phantasma there is no sensible knowledge and without the intelligible species there is no intellection", argues for the need of an active intellect in order to explain the transit from the particular to the universal knowledge. The universal knowledge from experience takes place in two different moments: first, the active intellect, as the main effective cause, together with the common nature in the phantasma, as the co-effective cause, produce the intelligible species, that is, the indeterminate universal in act or the metaphysical universal; second, the passive intellect, as the main effective cause, and the intelligibible species, as the effective instrumental cause, produce the intellection, that is, the full universal or the logic universal, that is a universal concept and name. The full universal or logical universal, is only a concept and a name that can be said of many individuals. It is a second intention that refers, immediately, to the first intention or intelligible species and, indirectly, to the phantasma, the representative of the physical individual.
"Como la vihuela templada, que hace dulce armonía": imagen del hombre y de la ciencia en el Renacimiento desde un relato de Pérez de Oliva (1494-1531)
Authors: FUERTES HERREROS José  L.
Published: May 2018

In view of the changes and achievements which the science and technique are producing at the end of the XV and XVI centuries, fragmenting the medieval order, Fernán Pérez de Oliva, in order to bring into harmony the new Renaissance times, will offer a new image of the human being. This will must be as the well tuned vihuela wich produces sweet harmony.
A study of the ideology of tea ceremony of Sodongpa and Lee Gyu-Bo -Focused on how to apply the personality training by tea ceremony education.
Authors:   Association for International Tea Culture, Kang Mi ae
Published: May 2018

In this thesis, as one of ways of the education to recover the human nature , I tried to carefully contemplate and compare the ideology of tea ceremony of the poet of Northern Song Dynasty Sodongpa and the poet of Koryeo Dynasty Lee Gyu-Bo. These two men, Sodongpa and Lee Gyu-Bo, were not only full of their humanitarian love and mercy but also well known as the famous tea lovers. Although they had to live the era confused with the honor and disgrace, however they lived the life frugal and moderate, feeling a complacence in a fundamentally poor living. Suggesting a desirable human image in this era through the tea-philosophy of these men, it is for what this thesis is aiming.
The characteristics of the tea philosophy of Sodongpa (1036-1101)and Lee Gyu-Bo (1330-1374) are based on the ideology of harmony of three religions: Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism. As the common point of these two poets, they are suggesting the spirit and the attitude of the man of virtue, accepting the ideology of Buddhism and Taoism focused on the ideology of Confucius and Mencius. And also, they have the transcendental ideology which is freely crossing over the boundary of the life value and the success value. Having the feature of Chuang-tzu, they pursued the life of living in self-contentment and complacence, as this Chinese philosopher explained in his writing in title of Soyoyu(逍遥游). In base of this ideology, in the background of their tea-poems, I analyzed the tea-philosophy of Sodongpa and Lee Gyu-Bo.
We may define the tea-philosophy of Sodongpa and Lee Gyu-Bo as these two expressions: Tea-philosophy of spiritual-physical purification and Tea-philosophy of human science. These two philosophies comprise the views of life, politics, virtuous man of two poets and their values are closely related together.
These two men s life of enjoying tea was so profound to the extent they regard the tea as their most important and precious partner. Through this kind of life, immersing in complete oblivion of self, they are finally arriving at the total tranquility. Through the repeated training of tea ceremony, while brewing the very appropriate taste of tea, they finally become to realize the moderation, to say in other word, the true meaning of harmony.
Such a life of respecting tea ceremony was able to communicate with the ideology of harmony of Confucianism-Buddhism-Taoism and made people keep the figure of virtuous man, of highly noble and clean. Sodongpa and Lee Gyu-Bo lived with the transcendental and tranquil spirit just similar with the nature of tea. I am confident that the human image of these two great beautiful poets, who devoted themselves to the world of desire with such self-denying spirit, might be the spring to us, in solution of the problem of human nature education that our society is now seriously confronting.
Cultural background of the establishment of Japanese Senchadō
Authors:   Association for International Tea Culture, Noh Kenu sook
Published: May 2018

Chanoyu (茶の湯) and Senchadō (煎茶道) are the two pillars of Japanese tea culture and the foundations of traditional Japanese mentality and the way of life. These are Japanese traditional cultures, but also still being practiced as living cultures. Chanoyu and Senchadō have inseparable relations, since Chanoyu provided the background and eventually triggered the birth of Senchadō.
During Edo period, many cities were flourished and wealthy Chōnin (町人, townsman ) class emerged in the cities. Chōnins had changed the original Chanoyu practices, which focused upon truth seeking and asceticism. Chanoyu had become a symbol of escalated social status of wealthy Chōnins, and Yuugei (遊藝), the way of enjoying tea as leisure, stemmed from Chanoyu.
Chanoyu created Iemoto (家元,“Grand Master”) system and a new custom of paying the Iemotos in order to learn the way of enjoying tea from them. And a newly created custom call Hakogaki (箱書), the inscriptions written on tea cups by Iemotos to certify their value, was criticized for being too commercialized. The leaders of the tea circle started to pursue economic gains, and a growing number of people enjoyed only the formality of the tea culture. Chanoyu as a kind of leisure raised many concerned voices in and outside of the tea circle.
Senchadō was born as an alternative of the deformed Chanoyu. Senchadō is the way of enjoying leaf tea instead of powdered green tea, which was established in the mid Edo period. Ōbaku-shū (黄檗宗), a sect of Chinese Buddhism, and elegant manners of the literary circle of Ming and Qing dynasties affected the spirit and formality of Senchadō.
Experimental Study of CO2 Absorption in Potassium Carbonate Solution Promoted by Triethylenetetramine
Authors: Ramezani Rouzbeh , Mazinani Saeed , Di Felice Renzo
Published: May 2018

Background:

Separation of CO

2

as the major cause of global warming is essential.
In this work, potassium carbonate (K

2

CO

3

) solution was selected as a base solvent for CO

2

absorption due to its ease of regeneration energy, low cost and low environmental impact. However, the absorption rate of CO

2

with K

2

CO

3

needs to be improved by adding a suitable promoter. Therefore, the performance of CO

2

in K

2

CO

3

solution promoted by triethylenetetramine (TETA) in terms of absorption capacity and absorption rate of CO2 was studied.

Method:

Experiments were conducted at a total concentration of 2.5 (M) with different TETA mole fractions at temperatures of 303, 313 and 323 K, and CO2 partial pressure up to 30 kPa using a stirred cell reactor. The effect of CO2 partial pressure, temperature and concentration of TETA on absorption capacity and absorption rate of CO2 in K2CO3+TETA solution was discussed in detail.

Results:

The CO2 loading capacity obtained in this work was compared with monoethanolamine (MEA) and a better performance was observed for K2CO3+TETA solution. In addition, experimental results revealed that the addition of TETA to K2CO3 improved the CO2 reaction rate. Finally, the response surface methodology was employed to correlate the CO2 solubility. It was found that the correlated data are in good agreement with the experiment results.

Conclusion:

As an overall conclusion, the solution of K2CO3+TETA can be used as a promising absorbent in post combustion CO2 capture processes.
Data-Driven Learning in High-Resolution Activity Sampling From Patients With Bipolar Depression: Mixed-Methods Study
Authors: Rohani Darius Adam , Tuxen Nanna , Quemada Lopategui Andrea , Kessing Lars Vedel , Bardram Jakob Eyvind
Published: May 2018

Background

Behavioral activation is a pen and paper-based therapy form for treating depression. The patient registers their activity hourly, and together with the therapist, they agree on a plan to change behavior. However, with the limited clinical personnel, and a growing patient population, new methods are needed to advance behavioral activation.

Objective

The objectives of this paper were to (1) automatically identify behavioral patterns through statistical analysis of the paper-based activity diaries, and (2) determine whether it is feasible to move the behavioral activation therapy format to a digital solution.

Methods

We collected activity diaries from seven patients with bipolar depression, covering in total 2,480 hours of self-reported activities. A pleasure score, on a 1-10 rating scale, was reported for each activity. The activities were digitalized into 6 activity categories, and statistical analyses were conducted.

Results

Across all patients, movement-related activities were associated with the highest pleasure score followed by social activities. On an individual level, through a nonparametric Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test, one patient had a statistically significant larger amount of spare time activities when feeling bad (z=–2.045, P=.041). Through a within-subject analysis of covariance, the patients were found to have a better day than the previous, if that previous day followed their diurnal rhythm (ρ=.265, P=.029). Furthermore, a second-order trend indicated that two hours of daily social activity was optimal for the patients (β2=–0.08, t (63)=–1.22, P=.23).

Conclusions

The data-driven statistical approach was able to find patterns within the behavioral traits that could assist the therapist in as well as help design future technologies for behavioral activation.
On the Translation of The Great Ming Code (Da Ming Lü) from the Perspective of Translator’s Discourse
Authors: Xiao Han , Li Lei
Published: May 2018

Based on a paucity of cases and drawing on the translator’s subjectivity, this essay examines how Jiang Yonglin employed numerous translation strategies to foster the realization his discursive power: On the one hand, he tries to be neutral or objective via a combination of domestication and foreignization strategies, at the same time, influenced by such factors as culture, value and ideology, he is more or less biased towards one party by adopting selective translation strategies. The study proposes that translators, subject to various social and personal ideologies and cultural value, do display double roles during the translation process. The findings illustrate the fact that there is indeed a close connection between discourse and ideology, and promote the translation criticism of Chinese legal classics.
Do cross-border acquisitions create more shareholder value than domestic deals for firms in a mature economy? The Japanese case
Authors: Inoue Kotaro , Ings Robert
Published: May 2018

In this paper, we analyse the shareholder wealth effect in domestic and cross-border acquisitions involving Japanese acquiring firms over the period from 2000 to 2010. The results of our study reveal that cross-border acquisitions create larger returns for the acquirers’ shareholders than domestic deals. Furthermore, although acquisitions of firms in G7 countries create larger value than other acquisitions in the period between 2000 and 2003, in the period between 2008 and 2010, which corresponds to a period of slow economic growth in G7 countries after the US financial crisis, acquisitions involving target firms in non-G7 countries created greater wealth gains for shareholders than deals that targeted firms in G7 countries. Our results highlight the growing importance of M&A target firms in growing markets for mature firms in advanced and slow-growth economies.
Three-dimensional evaluation of changes in upper airway volume in growing skeletal Class II patients following mandibular advancement treatment with functional orthopedic appliances
Authors: Isidor Stig , Di Carlo Gabriele , Cornelis Marie A. , Isidor Flemming , Cattaneo Paolo M.
Published: May 2018

Objectives:

The aim of this study was to assess three-dimensionally the upper airway changes following functional appliance treatment in growing Class II patients.

Materials and Methods:

Pre-and post-treatment Cone beam computed tomography scans of 20 patients (age range: 9 to 12; mean: 11.4 ± 1.0 years) were retrieved from the list of patients previously treated with functional appliances in the Postgraduate Clinic at the Section of Orthodontics, Aarhus University, Denmark. Total and partial volumes of the upper airway (ie, lower nasopharynx, velopharynx, and oropharynx) were calculated. To rule out the effect of growth, the changes in the functional appliance group were compared to an age-matched Class I group of 18 patients (age range: 8 to 14; mean: 11.8 ± 1.4 years).

Results:

In the functional appliance group, all the partial and total volumes were significantly larger at the end of treatment when compared to the start of treatment (P < .003). On the other hand, when comparing the changes for the total and partial volumes of the upper airway in the functional appliance group with the Class I group, a statistical difference was seen only for the oropharynx (P = .022) and total volume (P = .025), with the functional appliance group showing a larger volume increment.

Conclusions:

An increase in the upper airway volume was found after treatment with functional appliances. This difference was mainly related to the changes at the oropharynx level, which differed significantly from what was observed in the Class I group.
The Community of Ecological Opportunities
Authors: McPeek Mark A.
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines ecological opportunities that are available to species in various positions within a biological community, with particular emphasis on identifying the criteria necessary for an ecological opportunity to exist. Before discussing what performance capabilities a species must have to fill different types of ecological opportunities and what is required for invasibility of species into different functional positions in a community, the chapter considers the different frameworks that have been used to model species interactions. It then describes resource and apparent competition to show how resource availability from below and predation pressure from above can affect the types of species that can exploit specifc ecological opportunities. It also analyzes communities with three trophic levels, intraguild predation or omnivory, mutualism, the mechanisms that foster coexistence between one plant species and one pollinator species, and the case of one plant species with multiple pollinators.
Introduction
Authors: Prins Yopie
Published: May 2018

This book examines why Victorian women of letters such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sara Coleridge, and Virginia Woolf self-consciously performed collective identification with Greek letters and showed literary interest in their translations of with Greek tragedy. It considers how these women engaged with ideas about classical antiquity, and how much they contributed to the idealization of all things Greek. It discusses the ways in which women learned to read the Greek alphabet, to discover all the letters between alpha and omega, and how they turned ancient Greek into a language of and for desire. The book argues that nineteenth-century women writers turned to tragedy in particular as a literary genre for the performance of female classical literacy, and that their passionate reading of Greek led them into various forms of translation. Five tragedies are analyzed to elucidate the legacy of Ladies' Greek: Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound, Electra, Hippolytus, and Bacchae.