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Item type:Publication, From Directed Evolution (DE) to Artificial Intelligence (AI): Two Transhumanist Technologies from the Perspective of Saint Thomas AquinasHuman spiritual nature makes man capable of overcoming his precariousness through technology. Thus, since his beginningsm he has striven to improve himself and build a better world. However, the scientific and technological developments achieved in the last three decades have produced approaches that include the fact that man intends to overcome the limits imposed by nature. Within transhumanism: directed evolution (DE), and artificial intelligence (AI) are part of the technological resources that have acquired relevance in this context, and to which I have dedicated somo of the research that that I have done in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to briefly present the most relevant aspects of this research, in light of the philosophical principles proposed by Saint Thomas Aquinas several centuries before these advances were achieved. The intention is twofold: to show the perennial validity of Aquinas´s metaphysical and antropological foundations, as well as his ability to offer answers to these and many other current challenges. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Making of Medieval SardiniaVolume Editors: Alex Metcalfe, Hervin Fernández-Aceves, and Marco Muresu. This landmark volume combines classic and revisionist essays to explore the historiography of Sardinia’s exceptional transition from an island of the Byzantine empire to the rise of its own autonomous rulers, the iudikes, by the 1000s. In addition to Sardinia’s contacts with the Byzantines, Muslim North Africa and Spain, Lombard Italy, Genoa, Pisa, and the papacy, recent and older evidence is analysed through Latin, Greek and Arabic sources, vernacular charters and cartularies, the testimony of coinage, seals, onomastics and epigraphy as well as the Sardinia’s early medieval churches, arts, architecture and archaeology. The result is an important new critique of state formation at the margins of Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West with the creation of lasting cultural, political and linguistic frontiers in the western Mediterranean. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Royal comestabuli and Military Control in the Sicilian Kingdom: A Prosopographical Contribution to the Study of Italo-Norman AristocracyWhen the Sicilian monarchy was established after years of conflict, King Roger II began to consolidate his authority on the Italian peninsula. The establishment of titles for the organization and control of the continental provinces has been noted by several scholars as an instrumental feature of the kingdom's social arrangement. Yet, contemporary scholarship has dismissed the royal comestabuli as unimportant social agents, either as "officials" documented in the Catalogus Baronum or as territorial lords. As a result, several questions surrounding the issue remain unanswered: to what extent did the local, lesser aristocracy shape the kingdom's effective social, and military, control over Southern Italy, and who were the nodal characters that allow us to discern this process? Was a comestabulia a fixed administrative district, or rather a type of social authority? Although in this limited space a finished picture cannot be presented, this article offers the results of a recent prosopographical exploration of South Italian sources for the Norman period. By taking the comestabuli as a starting point, I study the intermediary position that particular barons held as both royal agents and para-comital supervisors of the military contingents levied from the kingdom's aristocracy. This article attempts not only to shed some light on this almost ignored class of functionaries, but also to further explore the social roles established amongst the Italo-Norman nobility. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Notas metafísicas sobre el concepto de naturaleza en Santo Tomás de AquinoEl concepto de naturaleza se ha definido como primer principio de operaciones. Se trata de un principio al que se atribuyen las acciones y las manifestaciones de prácticamente todas las cosas. Sin embargo, podemos constatar que, a lo largo de la historia, su significado ha sido un tanto ambiguo. Esa es la razón por la que el objeto de este breve trabajo es presentar las notas metafísicas esenciales del concepto de naturaleza. Trascender el plano físico para adentrarnos en el plano metafísico, considerando como referencia la propuesta de Santo Tomás de Aquino, que considera a Dios como causa última de la operatividad y demuestra en qué sentido la naturaleza puede ser considerada como principio de movimiento. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Fundamentos metafísicos de la relación entre el intelecto y la voluntad en Santo Tomás de AquinoEl presente trabajo es un análisis metafísico de las relaciones entre el intelecto y la voluntad, a partir de la solución que ofrece Santo Tomás de Aquino a las propuestas intelectualistas y voluntaristas de su época. Mediante la aplicación de la doctrina del acto y la potencia descubierta por Aristóteles, y con los elementos tan importantes que para el siglo XIII había aportado el cristianismo, Santo Tomás resuelve el problema de la producción de conceptos universales en un entorno de realidades materiales concretas. La aportación de Santo Tomás consiste en haber logrado un intelectualismo moderado, otorgando a cada facultad el valor y la preeminencia que le corresponde, evitando el voluntarismo relativista y alcanzando una profundidad en el realismo metafísico única en la historia del pensamiento. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Ética profesional: los sistemas relativistas frente a la ética realistaLa búsqueda para determinar un criterio sólido sobre la moralidad, es decir, sobre la bondad o maldad de los actos humanos, ha tenido una ardua trayectoria histórica de modo que al día de hoy tenemos muchas propuestas que prometen cientificidad. Sin embargo, al analizarlas, observamos que estas son, en muchos de los casos, contradictorias. Lo anterior tiene como consecuencia que frecuentemente se dude sobre la legitimidad científica para determinar la bondad o maldad de los actos humanos. Es por esa razón que consideramos pertinente abordar el tema del carácter científico de la ética realista frente a los otros sistemas que tienen el común denominador del relativismo. Este capítulo tiene como objetivo presentar algunos sistemas éticos que se pueden considerar como representativos, para darnos una idea de la necesidad de una ética objetiva y realista. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Fernández Aceves, H. (2020). Review of A companion to Sardinian history, 500–1500 (M. Hobart, Ed.).This edited volume is a collection of essays by eighteen prominent voices in Sardinian history. It presents current research and introduces an important subject to English-speaking readers. Medieval and early modern scholarship on Sardinia has considerably grown in the last decades, and Hobart’s volume helps non-Sardinianists surveying this new landscape. The book is organised into three main sections: History, Archaeology and Culture. As an introduction, the editor offers a summary of medieval Sardinian history and a chronological outline of the historical writing, although the methodological and ideological constraints of the historiography are not addressed. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, La comunicación humana como elemento de liderazgo para el diálogo intercultural(2005)Conócete a ti mismo, es la recomendación que se encuentra en la inscripción de Delfos, que resulta fundamental para toda comunicación y que coloca a la filosofía como indispensable en la formación de todos aquellos que pretenden comprender la comunicación desde una perspectiva profunda, científica y universal. Y esto puesto que sólo con el conocimiento metafísico del mismo hombre, se cae en la cuenta de que la incomunicabilidad ontológica de la persona es la condición de toda relación y de toda comunicación. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, What can we learn from the Semantic Web to ‘revamp’ our Historical Research?This article comes as a result of the self-learning process I went through to understand what linked data is and how to use the semantic web model for collecting and organising my own historical data. In order to share this experience with a wider, non-specialised audience, I have written an introduction to the fundamental concepts behind the semantic model, accompanied by some brief reflections on their conceptual implications and examples on how to apply them to socio-historical data. In so doing, I wrote the introductory reflection that I wished I had known when I first heard the semantic web. The review of key concepts offers definitions for relational and linked data, graph database, RDF, semantic triple, vocabulary, ontology, and OWL. It is however a basic introduction, and it does not pretend to serve as a new contribution to the field or as a tutorial for learning how use RDF or OWL. Instead, it offers a beginner’s guide for students and researchers alike; it aims to show the reader where to start and what to expect.