Add to ORKGIn the Western tradition, life has been defined within the idea of reflexivity and unity. These two features of life are intertwined in what I call the Bio-Theo-Political Paradigm of autarchy, in which living beings are defined primarily as self-sufficient entities. The perfect living being, thus, will be the most autarchic, one that can achieve perfect unity within its own self- referred dynamics. This perfect living being is God, and Western theology (both Greek and Christian) conceptualized God as “thought of thought”, for only the intellect can achieve a pure reflexive unity. However, Plotinus and Jean-Paul Sartre (two very different philosophers, coming from very different traditions and in very different contexts) showed the difficult...
In this paper we examine aspects of Canguilhem’s philosophy of biology, concerning the knowledge of ...
The paper shows how far goes the convergence between the concept of autopoiesis, developedby the bio...
In this paper I pursue an avenue of argument implicit in Patristic thinkers — such as Tertullian and...
In the Western tradition, life has been defined within the idea of reflexivity and unity. These two ...
How can life be defined? In this paper, I will stress the importance of self-sufficiency (or, more r...
Abstract: How can life be defined? In this paper, I will stress the importance of self-sufficiency (...
El cuerpo viviente, desde Grecia a nuestros días, ha sido comprendido a partir de su capacidad por a...
Abstract: Jurgen Moltmann is one of the most important theologians in the XXth century who intended ...
The idea of a self-organized system brings both political and biological discourses together, for th...
The idea of a self-organized system brings both political and biological dis-courses together, for t...
Life as self-organization is philosophically understood by L. Polo in terms of co-causality between ...
The living body has been defined in our Western culture by its capacity of self-regulation and self-...
Cette thèse en théologie a pour sujet la personne humaine et sa continuité dont nous rendons compte ...
This thesis in theology is about the human person and his/her continuity, which we report throughout...
This paper investigates the transition from nature to culture through the concept of life, taking as...
In this paper we examine aspects of Canguilhem’s philosophy of biology, concerning the knowledge of ...
The paper shows how far goes the convergence between the concept of autopoiesis, developedby the bio...
In this paper I pursue an avenue of argument implicit in Patristic thinkers — such as Tertullian and...
In the Western tradition, life has been defined within the idea of reflexivity and unity. These two ...
How can life be defined? In this paper, I will stress the importance of self-sufficiency (or, more r...
Abstract: How can life be defined? In this paper, I will stress the importance of self-sufficiency (...
El cuerpo viviente, desde Grecia a nuestros días, ha sido comprendido a partir de su capacidad por a...
Abstract: Jurgen Moltmann is one of the most important theologians in the XXth century who intended ...
The idea of a self-organized system brings both political and biological discourses together, for th...
The idea of a self-organized system brings both political and biological dis-courses together, for t...
Life as self-organization is philosophically understood by L. Polo in terms of co-causality between ...
The living body has been defined in our Western culture by its capacity of self-regulation and self-...
Cette thèse en théologie a pour sujet la personne humaine et sa continuité dont nous rendons compte ...
This thesis in theology is about the human person and his/her continuity, which we report throughout...
This paper investigates the transition from nature to culture through the concept of life, taking as...
In this paper we examine aspects of Canguilhem’s philosophy of biology, concerning the knowledge of ...
The paper shows how far goes the convergence between the concept of autopoiesis, developedby the bio...
In this paper I pursue an avenue of argument implicit in Patristic thinkers — such as Tertullian and...