Murmullos Filosoficos

Política y justicia

2024-04-29T15:24:18-05:00

En el número 7 de Murmullos filosóficos, seis profesoras y profesores se encargan de desentrañar acciones sociales, individuales y colectivas, así como el significado de conceptos que rigen nuestras vidas contemporáneas, a través del pensamiento filosófico, un análisis que el Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades no ha dejado de hacer desde su fundación.

Justicia y política

2024-04-29T15:32:51-05:00

Presentación

2024-04-29T15:38:05-05:00

E n el número 7 de Murmullos filosóficos, seis profesoras y profesores se encargan de desentrañar acciones sociales, individuales y colectivas, así como el significado de conceptos que rigen nuestras vidas contemporáneas, a través del pensamiento filosófico, un análisis que el Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades no ha dejado de hacer desde su fundación.

Justicia y política

2024-04-29T15:41:36-05:00

Richard Rorty: Pragmatism, Solidarity, Poetry

2024-04-29T15:49:26-05:00

In “Richard Rorty: Pragmatism, solidarity, Poetry”, Rorty’s arguments for human life betterment, as well as the claims of the American philosopher facing dualisms that became an obstacle for human solidarity, are highlighted. Reviewing Rorty’s arguments, concepts of contingency, pragmatism, and solidarity offered in the book with the same title are explored. La filosofía y el espejo de la naturaleza, Philosophy and Social Hope and Consecuencias del pragmatismo, also Rorty’s books, are likewise considered in this essay. Finally, It attends the path that conduces Rorty to propose Poetry as an answer for living a solidary life: a different and better answer than essential truth, Rorty holds.

Evil eye: a brief epistemological analysis

2024-05-08T11:29:16-05:00

In this article, an analysis regarding the “Evil Eye” is carried out to justify said belief as not a type of knowledge in daily life (common knowledge) nor as scientific knowledge, but as a belief without objectively sufficient reasons to back it up. The meaning of the “Evil Eye” is narrowed down, and with this in mind, different reasons are offered to remain skeptical about the explanations given by the believers of this so-called curse. Lastly, an outlining of some factors is done in order to allow an understanding regarding why the believers of the “Evil Eye” attribute this condition to the wrong causes, as well as why they are so reluctant to abandon their conviction, even when there are good reasons to support a reasonable doubt regarding its existence.

Citizenship: An open discussion

2024-05-08T11:45:40-05:00

This work presents the exposition of the theme of citizenship based on some current authors. The discussion on this topic is essential because it allows us to recognize moral limits from analyzing ethical concepts related to citizenship and the critical issue of public reason. The sources used in this work to characterize ethics, citizenship, and public reason come from the current philosophical tradition. In this sense, It will mainly analyze and discuss ideas from J. Rawls, A. Cortina, and Charles Taylor, among others.

Toward the Comprehension of a Democratic Political Culture

2024-05-08T12:10:31-05:00

Fostering within a society the development of a democratic political culture remains a starting point for the construction, solidification, and exercise of democracy, since from the knowledge of what values are, the beliefs, behaviors, and convictions of citizens belonging to a community, we can better understand the relations between individuals, the relations between various social groups, the exercise of power, the internal organization of society, the development and function of institutions, the conception about obedience, the civil resistance, that is, the political life in general of any society.

African Americans and Necrolaw.

2024-05-08T12:45:55-05:00

This article aims to analyze how laws, public policies and institutions in the United States have institutionalized the death of African-Americans as a State control mechanism. This will be done through a brief historical account of the laws that have enslaved and criminalized African-Americans until reaching the current prison system that profits from the mass incarceration of this minority.

The Kantian Influence in Shaping the Concept of “Citizenship” and Its Impact on the Construction of Human Rights as Criteria to Find Justice in Societies

2024-05-08T13:26:06-05:00

This paper talks about the modern construction of citizenship through its philosophical foundations, derived from the need to establish equality between individuals and societies, whose culmination comes with Kant’s thought. Then, it relates to the superior construction of the so-called Human Rights from the historical development of societies and political ideas, which are the basic human relations principles in contemporary societies.

Laura Quintanilla

2024-05-08T12:25:45-05:00

Ciudad de México, 1960. Vive y trabaja en México. Tienes estudios de licenciatura en Diseño Gráfico, por la Escuela de Diseño del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, y maestría en Artes Visuales de Pintura en la Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, por la División de Estudios de Posgrado de la UNAM.

Pandemia y posverdad: La vida, la ciencia y la cuarta Revolución Industrial de Jordi Pigem

2024-05-08T13:37:19-05:00

El filósofo Jordi Pigem (Barcelona, 1964) nos presenta en Pandemia y posverdad, obra a la vez sintética y profunda, una serie de hechos y de reflexiones en torno a la pandemia del Covid- 19 que, si estamos atentos a sus argumentos, nos hacen cuestionar el relato oficial de las instituciones de salud nacionales e internacionales, además de la narrativa de los grandes medios de comunicación.

Murmullos filosóficos

2024-05-08T13:46:32-05:00