López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier
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Al-Fārābī y la relación entre política y religión a la luz de su comentario a Las Leyes de Platón

2016 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier

El análisis de las ideas que al-Fārābī heredó de Las leyes de Platón ha sido prácticamente desatendido, a pesar de que contribuiría a una mejor comprensión de un problema que ha sido tema de discusión entre los seguidores de la interpretación de Leo Strauss y sus críticos: la tensión entre religión y política, tanto en Las leyes de Platón, como en la filosofía política de al-Fārābī. En este artículo argumento que una interpretación integral de la filosofía política de al-Fārābī ayuda a esclarecer aquella tensión, polémicamente interpretada por Strauss como una antinomia. Signos Filosóficos by Universidad Autómoma Metropolitana is licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional License.

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Razones y argumentos: Una relectura del Fasl Al-maqal de Averroes

2014 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier

Uno de los temas más abordados entre los estudiosos del pensamiento de Averroes es la relación entre filosofía y religión; se trata, sin duda alguna, de una relación tan compleja como controvertida. Averroes suele considerarse el mayor representante del racionalismo islámico y, de hecho, la interpretación estándar en la historia de la filosofía es que su pretensión era subordinar las creencias religiosas a la razón.

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Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas on Natural Prophecy

2014 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier

In De Veritate, question 12, article 3, Thomas Aquinas discusses whether prophecy is natural. Given that there he argues that prophecy is a divine gift , he seems to break away from the Muslim philosopher Avicenna, who holds a naturalistic explanation of this phenomenon. Certainly Avicenna explained prophecy in psychological and metaphysical terms, and was considered by some Christian theologians as proponent of a naturalistic view, thought to be incompatible with prophecy conceived as a divine and supernatural gift. In this paper I trace the origin of the discussion on whether prophecy is natural or supernatural, and then I recapitulate Avicenna’s understanding of this phenomenon in two short treatises, namely, the Epistle Concerning Dreams and On the Proof of Prophecies, and in the De anima and the Metaphysics of his major work The Book of Healing. Then I review Aquinas’s understanding of Avicenna’s view and his own conception of “natural prophecy” in order to show that, although when he argues for the divine origin of prophecy he distances himself from the Persian philosopher, he sees in his interpretation of Avicenna’s naturalistic doctrine a theory that could explain why some people sometimes attain knowledge of future events through a natural process different from divine prophecy. Finally, I discuss for what purpose Aquinas would have admitted this naturalistic view

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Democratic confederalism : an alternative for facing tensions between global citizenship and localist citizenship

2023 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier , Lozano Ortega, Tatiana

This article explores the tensions between different conceptions of “citi-zenship.” On the one hand, we point out the virtues and limitations of cosmopoli-tan citizenship in the terms in which Seyla Benhabib understands it in The Right of Others...; on the other hand, we delve into another notion of citizenship, namely, the localist, in a version that could be at odds with some cosmopolitan values, that is, localism as understood by some Mexican autonomous communities, particularly the Zapatistas. Although Benhabib’s cosmopolitan federalism is inclusive in spirit, it is conceived within a preponderantly global perspective and ends up being asym-metrical. While her proposal has some positive aspects, it faces some difficulties in the case of Mexican autonomous communities. In this article, we shall introduce the notion of democratic confederalism as a form of sociopolitical organization that seeks to strengthen the self-organization of social actors and to recognize the practice of citizenship in the terms in which autonomous communities exercise it. We propose that democratic confederalism could be an alternative for decreasing tensions between global citizenship and the idea of citizenship within autonomous communities.

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Metafísica, acción y voluntad : ensayos en homenaje a Carlos Llano

2005 , Zagal Arreguin, Hector , Aspe-Armella, Virginia , Jiménez Torres, Óscar , Llano Cifuentes, Alejandro , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier , LUIS XAVIER LOPEZ FARJEAT;25218 , Campus Ciudad de México

Sobre la ambivalencia de los dos fines en la acción directiva de Carlos Llano / Virginia Aspe Armella -- La índole trascendental de la relación moral / Juan Cruz Cruz -- La libertad comprometida. Un acercamiento a la filosofía de la libertad en Carlos Lano / Hortensia Cuellar -- Ontología y epistemología del singular / Mario Gensollen Mendoza -- Interés de la razón y postulado, claves del teismo moral kantiano / Ángel Luis González -- Notas generales sobre el pensamiento filosófico de Carlos Llano: sobre el conocimiento y la reflexión / Oscar Jiménez -- Innovación y universidad / Alejandro Llano -- La analogía en Carlos Llano / Luis Xavier López-Farjeat -- El tono conceptual de los presupuestos de la metafísica / Juan Andrés Mercado -- Diferentes sentidos de Hypokeimenon en Aristóteles. Consideraciones a propósito de Carlos Llano / Rocío Mier y Terán y Enrique García de la Garza -- Raíces aristotélicas de las Etiologías / Amalia Quevedo -- Física y filosofía bases para una metafísica no racionalista / Alberto Ross -- Observaciones sobre dos preponderancias de la voluntad: el error y la idea de la nada / Héctor Velázquez Fernández -- Verdad práctica y causa ejemplar / Héctor Zagal.

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Narrating Premodern Philosophy in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin

2023 , Krause, Katja , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier , Oschman, Nicholas A.

Premodern philosophy originated in Antiquity, particularly in the writings of Plato and Aristotle. This introductory essay highlights points of cross-pollination between different schools, cultures, and moments in premodern thought, and prepares the ground for the rest of the volume by presenting different ways of approaching the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin philosophical traditions. Some historiographies covering these traditions look forward, dynamically adapting, reworking, and molding what they find in their heritage to their own needs. Others look backward, seeking truth in stable origins. The approach proposed in this volume builds on a “source-based contextualism,” articulated most prominently by Richard C. Taylor, that assesses each medieval philosophical or theological text in light of other relevant philosophical and theological texts. We consider epistemic motifs that contextualize historical thinkers in their own spatial and temporal surroundings. Thus, there is a root from which different derivations arise, but each text is also contextually complex on its own account, and frames a philosophical problem in different ways within the living debates of particular times and particular spaces. The twenty-two chapters in the volume collectively apply this combined approach with different emphases, along the historiographical trajectories of “origins,” “developments,” and “innovations.”. © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Katja Krause, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, and Nicholas A. Oschman; individual chapters, the contributors.

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Avicenna on information processing and abstraction

2021 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier

Avicenna has a great deal to say about the topic of ‘information’ (taṣawwur), that is, the acquisition of cognitive or mental content (ma‘nā). Ma‘nā is a term commonly used among Islamic scholars and could refer the meaning of a word, properties of the external world, and also cognitive or mental content (forms, images, intentions, intelligible forms, or concepts). Within his philosophical works, Avicenna developed sophisticated explanations for the human mind’s ability to process information coming from the external world, as well as the way in which the mind (or ‘intellective soul,’ to use Avicenna’s terminology) apprehends intelligible forms, that is, the highest form of cognitive content. Nevertheless, Avicenna provides two divergent models for human knowledge that scholarly literature has intensely debated between. In this chapter, I expand upon and problematize these two models. While I do not provide a resolution or a novel alternative interpretation to this discussion, I describe the status of the debate and ultimately evaluate if Avicenna’s way of explaining cognition has something to say to contemporary epistemology.

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Recovering Causality? Ibn Taymiyya on the Creation of the World

2023-01-01 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier

Most philosophical and theological conceptions on causality (taʿlīl) within the Islamic context are related to one of the subjects that has received most attention in scholarly literature, namely, the creation of the world. Given the enormous amount of literature that exists on causality, creation, and the nature of God as creator within the Islamic context, in this chapter I do not intend to reconstruct in detail the arguments of Avicenna (d. 1037), al-Ghazālī (d. 1111), Averroes (d. 1098), and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1209). Nevertheless, I shall revisit some of their views to introduce the discussion I want to undertake, that is, the recovery of causality in the 14th-century religious controversial thinker Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328). For Ibn Taymiyya, both philosophy (falsafa) and theology (kalām) were two innovative disciplines that encroached upon traditional views of religion. One would expect, from someone engaged to traditional Islam, that he would advocate creatio ex nihilo. However, Ibn Taymiyya was opposed to both the kalāmic notion of creatio ex nihilo and Avicenna’s conception of eternal emanation. While Ibn Taymiyya had plenty of disagreements with the philosophers, he endorsed perpetual creation, an idea already found in Avicenna and Averroes. Several works have recently been published pointing out the influence of Averroes on Ibn Taymiyya. It is well-known that Averroes refuted al-Ghazālī’s denial of natural causality. In addition to Averroes, Ibn Taymiyya, an ‘anti-philosophical’ thinker, also recovered the notion of causality. Here I discuss to what extent Ibn Taymiyya takes up causality as understood by Averroes and to what extent he breaks away from him. ©Routledge

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Las transformaciones de la doctrina aristotélica del intelecto

2022 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier

Este artículo explica, primero, el modo en que Alejandro de Afrodisia interpretó la doctrina aristotélica del intelecto en dos de sus tratados más relevantes a este respecto, a saber, el De Intellectu y el De anima. Posteriormente, se destaca la presencia de comentadores de la antigüedad tardía en los tratados acerca del intelecto de al-Kindī y, principalmente, de al-Fārābī, los dos primeros filósofos en formular en el contexto árabe-islámico doctrinas del intelecto. En un tercer momento, se estudia cuidadosamente el modo en que al-Fārābī interpreta la doctrina aristotélica del intelecto influido por Alejandro de Afrodisia. Finalmente, a manera de conclusión, se discuten los retos interpretativos que hay en la doctrina del intelecto de al-Fārābī y se alude brevemente a la defensa que hace Avempace de la concepción farabiana del intelecto.

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Janos, D. (2020). Avicenna on the Ontology of Pure Quiddity. De Gruyter. 762 pp.

2022 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier

Avicena (m. 1037) es el filósofo más representativo de la tradición islámica clásica. Sus contribuciones a la lógica, la física, la metafísica, la psicología racional y la medicina son invaluables. Su importancia es tal, que varios historiadores de la filosofía han distinguido entre un periodo pre-aviceniano y uno post-aviceniano. En el primer periodo destacan sobre todo al-Kindī (m. circa 870), el primer filósofo de los árabes, y al-Fārābī (m. 950), conocido como el “segundo maestro” (el primero era Aristóteles). A pesar de la fuerte influencia de este último en la filosofía de Avicena, es cierto que a partir de esta hay un parteaguas: las ideas de Avicena impactan notablemente en el ambiente intelectual islámico. Por ello, el lugar de este filósofo en la historia de la filosofía islámica es tal vez equiparable al de Kant o al de Hegel en la filosofía europea. Avicena adaptó y transformó varias nociones filosóficas provenientes de la filosofía aristotélica y del neoplatonismo, integrándolas al pensamiento islámico. De este modo, se volvió un punto de referencia entre los pensadores musulmanes que le sucedieron.

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