Ross, Alberto
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Ross, Alberto
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Ross Hernández, José Alberto
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jaross
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JSK-2926-2023

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The Causality of the Prime Mover in Metaphysics Λ

2016 , Ross, Alberto

The aim of this paper is to propose a critical revision of the traditional interpretation of Met. Λ, according to which the Aristotelian Prime Mover is the final cause that explains the eternal movement of the heaven, rather than a formal or an efficient cause postulated for the same purpose. The importance of this discussion is widely acknowledged, and it is a subject upon which there is no unanimous agreement among interpreters. The different accounts of the causal relationship between the Unmoved Mover and the physical world have given rise to one of the most recurrent controversies in the history of the transmission of the Corpus Aristotelicum, and it is a question that does not admit simple or simplistic answers. ©2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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Cause and Explanation in Aristotle: Logos, Eidos, and Tropos

2023-01-01 , Ross, Alberto

The aim of this chapter is to propose a reconstruction of the Aristotelian notion of aitia. I will attempt to justify that, through this notion, Aristotle proposes a doctrine regarding the different ways to explain something, which is not necessarily linked to a specific cosmology. If we read closely his exposition about what is an aitia and the classifications according to their eidos and their tropos, we find a fruitful theory both from a historical and from a thematic point of view. This can be justified by identifying the methodological moment in which its exposition is found and in the kind of examples used. To prove this thesis, I will comment some passages of Ph. II 3 and Metaph. V 1–3 in order to show what is common between species and modes of aitiai. After that, I will analyze these classifications and attempt to show that they provide us with a wide variety of options to answer the question about why something is the case. I will also try to prove that they are not necessarily linked to a specific physics or cosmology. ©Routledge

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Arte y naturaleza en Física II: Usos y alcances de una analogía

2021 , Ross, Alberto

El propósito de este trabajo es ofrecer una reconstrucción de los usos que se pueden encontrar de la analogía entre phúsis y tékhne en el libro II de la Física de Aristóteles. Intentaré mostrar que el filósofo griego recurre a ella con fines tanto ilustrativos como argumentativos, lo cual revela una visión muy original acerca del orden de la realidad. En aras de atender a lo propuesto, explicaré primero el uso de la analogía que aparece en el contexto de la definición de la naturaleza. En segundo lugar, revisaré los pasajes en los que nuestro autor aclara los sentidos en los que cabe hablar de la noción de phúsis y, finalmente, presentaré el uso de la comparación mencionada en la argumentación de Física II 8, en donde Aristóteles defiende la existencia de causas finales en la naturaleza. © 2021 Claridades. All rights reserved.

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Value Systems and Their Influence on Managerial Mindsets and Managers’ Volitions

2020 , Casanueva Fernández, Antonio , Ross, Alberto

Senior managers seek to align managerial endeavors with the organization’s objectives. Traditionally, alignment has focused on monitoring and rewarding the achievement of assigned targets. However, there is evidence to suggest that organizations may also seek to align managerial “values” with those of the organization. These attempts to influence managerial mindsets through management control systems raise non-trivial questions regarding the systems involved, the reasons behind them, and the possible consequences of such attempts. These questions form the basis of this research, and this chapter reports on two case studies of Mexican organizations that claim to have a values-based philosophy. This study contributes to the management literature by presenting empirical evidence related to certain philosophical ideas on the development of human potential and senior managers’ attempts to influence their employees’ will. In detailing the implementation process of two specific value systems, this chapter fills a gap identified in the management control literature.

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Causality, Nature and Fate in Alexander of Aphrodisias

2016 , Ross, Alberto

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between "causality", "nature", and "fate" in the De Fato of Alexander of Aphrodisias. The Greek commentator offers several arguments against determinism in the mentioned book, but I will focus my attention on only one of them in order to achieve my purpose. Alexander points out that everything that is "in accordance with nature" (katà tèn phúsin) is also "in accordance with fate" (kath'heimarménen). I will try to clarify this point and I will consider some novel aspects of Alexander's theory which emerge in the reconstruction of his assimilation of Aristotelianism.

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Abstracción y presencia : observaciones sobre los orígenes de la filosofía en Leonardo Polo

2015 , Ross, Alberto

El propósito de este trabajo es presentar algunos aspectos de la recepción de la filosofía antigua en Leonardo Polo. En particular, este artículo se centrará en su explicación acerca del origen histórico del pensamiento filosófico. Polo sostiene que si la abstracción es la primera operación intelectual, la filosofía griega es la primera filosofía. En su opinión, su propuesta epistemológica tiene verificación histórica y apela a los filósofos antiguos para probarlo. En este contexto, sus referencias a los pensadores griegos tienen un propósito temático, y no sólo historiográfico. ©2016 Studia Poliana, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra

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Reflexión bioética interdisciplinaria en torno a la edición genética con CRISPR-Cas en línea germinal en el contexto del transhumanismo

2019-02-13 , Aspe-Armella, Virginia , Derive, Stéphanie , González del Rincón, María de Lourdes , Ramírez-García, Hugo , Ross, Alberto , Ruiz-Gómez, Leonardo , Casas Martínez, María de la Luz Lina , Ibarra Soto, Diana

El propósito de este trabajo es explicar algunas de las implicaciones que conlleva la utilización de la técnica CRISPR-Cas en línea germinal con fines no terapéuticos, en el contexto del transhumanismo. Después de dar una breve explicación sobre la naturaleza de esta técnica, se ofrece el estado de la cuestión en lo referente a la normativa internacional vigente. Posteriormente, se observan las consecuencias que tiene el desarrollo de esta técnica en el marco del proyecto transhumanista y se ofrece una reflexión jurídica, una política y una antropológica sobre las mismas. ©2019 Open Insight, Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada.

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Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy

2023-01-01 , Ross, Alberto , Vázquez, Daniel

This volume offers an updated analysis of the use, meaning, and scope of the classical notion of aitia. It clarifies philosophical and philological questions about aitia and offers bold and innovative interpretations of this key concept of ancient philosophy. The numerous meanings and nuances of aitia remain difficult to grasp. Ancient philosophers use aitia to explain the existence and activity of substances, bodies, souls, or gods. Paradoxically, its own definition remains difficult to establish. This book reconstructs some of the most important uses, variants, and scopes of the term aitia within different philosophical perspectives in antiquity, including early Greek philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, and Islamic philosophy. The chapters analyze metaphysical aspects, epistemological issues, and logical implications of aitia. They engage with the most relevant critical literature generated in several modern languages. In doing so, they offer an inclusive and overarching re-evaluation of our assumptions about causation and explanation in ancient philosophy. Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Pre-Socratic philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, late antiquity, and medieval philosophy. ©Routledge.

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Dios, causalidad y movimiento en la Suma Teológica de santo Tomás de Aquino

2022 , Ross, Alberto

El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una reconstrucción de la primera vía propuesta por Santo Tomás para demostrar la existencia de Dios en la Suma Teológica. La argumentación tomista en dicha obra avanza paso a paso para explicar, en primer lugar, qué tipo de discurso racional se puede articular para hablar del ser y la esencia de Dios. Una vez desarrollado el punto anterior, el Aquinate propone unaserie de argumentos dirigidos a resolver la cuestión acerca de la existencia de un ser divino y sus atributos. En lo que respecta al presente texto, nos centraremos en la primera de las vías ahí propuestas a favor de la tesis “Dios existe” y hablaremos también del contexto discursivo en el que aparece dicha prueba. Tomás se refiere a ella como la primera y la más clara de todas.© 2022, Editorial Balmes. All rights reserved.

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Hedoné, teleíosis and enérgeia in Aristotle

2019 , Ross, Alberto

Hedoné, teleíosis and enérgeia in Aristotle · The aim of this paper is to discuss the Aristotelian defnition of pleasure in Nicomachean Ethics x 4. In those passages, Aristotle offers several arguments to prove that pleasure is not a movement (kínesis), or a coming into being. The nature of pleasure would imply a diferent kind of assimilation, something closer to an enérgeia. Even though, it is not clear in those texts, if pleasure is strictly speaking an activity or something that completes it. We fnd passages pointing out in both directions. In any case, a pleasure would complete an activity not as the inherent state does, but as an end which supervenes, just «as the bloom of youth does on those in the fower of their age». I will try to clarify the sense of this metaphor in the framework of Aristotle’s ontology and his ethical account in order to explain the Aristotelian defnition of pleasure.

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