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Tag Archives: filosofía
Margin Call (2011), or a Report on the Banality of Greed
So far, few movies have been as successful as J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011) in portraying the events of the 2008 economic crisis. In fact, the movie achieves something only a few among the best films in history have … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Evil, Films, Philosophy, Politics, Slavoj Žižek
Tagged films, filosofía, financial crisis, greed, Margin Call
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Deseo y cine
Žižek comienza su Guía del pervertido para el cine (2006) con una advertencia: el problema que afrontamos los humanos no es que tengamos deseos — de hecho, desear es una parte muy importante de lo que somos —; el problema real es … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Films, Philosophy, Slavoj Žižek
Tagged culpa, deseo, films, filosofía, Slavoj Žižek
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Žižek, Bosteels y Buck-Morss sobre cristianismo, activismo y ética
Como parte de la conferencia Communism, a New Beginning?, Slavoj Žižek, Bruno Bosteels y Susan Buck-Morss se reunieron hoy en Cooper Union, Nueva York, para discutir la intersección de la ética, la religión y la política en el marco de la … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Opinion, Religion, Slavoj Žižek
Tagged conferencia, filosofía, Marxism, Slavoj Žižek
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Two Digressions about Borges, Wittgenstein and the Aesthetic Experience
I. Borges and Shi Huang Ti In his tale “Las murallas y los libros,” Borges tells the story of Shi Huang Ti (or Quin Shi Huang), the Chinese emperor who built the first Great Wall, also remembered for ordering the … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Literatura, Philosophy
Tagged aesthetics, Borges, estética, filosofía, philosophy, Wittgenstein
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Russell on moral principles
While thinking on my recent posts (here and here) on the controversy between Boghossian and Fish on moral relativism, I recalled something I read on Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography. I’m talking about the chapter on his adolescent years, specifically the section he … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Religion
Tagged Bertrand Russell, Ethics, filosofía, meaning of life, philosophy
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More on moral relativism
A reader pointed out that I should have paid more attention to Boghossian’s arguments against Fish when I wrote my commentary on their virtual discussion on moral relativism. He mentioned a reply to Fish’s reply that Boghossian published thereafter. Also, … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Public Opinion
Tagged Ethics, filosofía, moral philosophy, philosophy, relativism
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Estética y Wittgenstein
Un poco en la misma tónica de mi comentario anterior, leía días atrás algunas notas sobre estética del filósofo austriaco Ludwig Wittgenstein. Las notas las recopilaron sus estudiantes de unas charlas que Wittgenstein diera en el verano de 1938. Aquí me refiero … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Analytic Philosophy, Art, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged art, estética, filosofía, ideology, Literatura, literature, Umberto Eco, Wittgenstein
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Arte, literatura y las ideas estéticas
En preparación para un ensayo que conecta la película The Matrix y las ideas de Jacques Lacan con algunas novelas de Roberto Bolaño, recién leí un análisis de la película de los hermanos Wachowski que escribiera hace unos años el … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Bolaño, Films, Literatura, Philosophy, Slavoj Žižek, Terry Eagleton
Tagged Bolaño, estética, filosofía, Literatura, literature, Roberto Bolaño, Slavoj Žižek, Terry Eagleton, The Matrix
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Boghossian vs. Fish on Moral Relativism
Right now, I’m working on a series of papers that include a lot of philosophical stuff and critical theory in analyzing Roberto Bolaño’s work. I guess this makes me somehow keen to any philosophical discussion like the one Stanley Fish and … Continue reading
Posted in Analytic Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Opinion
Tagged Ethics, filosofía, foundationalism, moral philosophy, philosophy, politica, Politics, relativism, Stanley Fish
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Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, RIP
Con las vacaciones y todas mis lecturas atrasadas, no he tenido tiempo de comentar la reciente muerte (el pasado 9 de julio) de quien fuera (quizá) el último representante de toda una generación de intelectuales hispanoamericanos, caracterizada por su independencia … Continue reading
Posted in Obituario, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, filosofía, Marxism, politica
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