López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier
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López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier
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López Farjeat, Luis Xavier
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Alfarabi y el rol de la poética

2005 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier , LUIS XAVIER LOPEZ FARJEAT;25218 , LUIS XAVIER LOPEZ FARJEAT;25218

“Alfarabi ocupa un lugar central en la recepción árabe del Órganon aristotélico. Al igual que otros comentadores, Alfarabi situó a la Retórica y a la Poética junto a los tratados analíticos, las Categorías, el Peri Hermeneias, los Tópicos y las Refutaciones Sofisticas. Su comprensión de la Poética es especialmente original. Leer la Retórica como un tratado de lógica no supone demasiados problemas, pues el propio Aristóteles señala cuales son los silogismos que ha de utilizar un retorico. En cambio, estudiar la Poética con la intención de integrarla a la lógica, nos obliga a pensar en la posibilidad de un silogismo poético del que Aristóteles no habla en ninguna parte del corpus. Ha de advertirse, sin embargo, que aunque en la Poética no se utilizan los términos "silogismo poético", Aristóteles si afirma que el mito permite razonar — syllogizesthai (Poética 1448 b 13-20) "--Pág. [273].

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Avicenna on Non-conceptual Content and Self-Awareness in Non-human Animals

2016 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier

Avicenna’s contributions to what might be called animal cognition are not confined to a novel understanding of Aristotle’s psychology, but they raise an issue that is still a matter of discussion in contemporary philosophy of mind: whether non-human animals have consciousness and intentional states that constitute a structured experience of their relation to the world, even though they do not have conceptual knowledge. This paper provides an explanation of Avicenna’s position concerning the cognitive content of sense perception and self-awareness in non-human animals as an attempt to show that Avicenna’s stance should be considered in the current discussion as an alternative that provides a provocative solution to a mainstream issue in contemporary philosophy. ©2016, Springer International Publishing.

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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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‘Abd al‐Jabbār and al‐Ghazālī on Divine Speech and their Theories of Language

2021 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier

In 833 the Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn (d. 833) began a religious persecution know as the mihna against the opponents of the Mu ‘tazilite doctrine of the creation of the Qur'an. With al-Mu'tásim (d. 842) and al-Wathiq (d. 847), the two successors of al-Ma’mun, the persecution lasted for fifteen years. Around 849-850, al-Mutawakkil stopped enforcing the mihna. As with most theological matters in the early Islamic context, doctrinal disagreements took place between Hanbalites, Mu’tazilites, and Ash’arites. In this case, while the Hanbalites held that the Qur’an was eternal and uncreated, containing the word of God-as Sunni Islam holds-the Mu’tazilites taught that the Qur’an indeed is the word of God but is created in time. ©2021, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, ©2021 Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. Copyright © 1999-2022 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

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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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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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Religión y territorio en la filosofía política de al-Fārābī

2023 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier , Ganem Gutiérrez, José Alfonso

El presente artículo explora el uso del par terminológico dār al-islām/dār al-ḥarb, primero desde la perspectiva de la jurisprudencia islámica y, posteriormente, desde la relación entre religión (milla), nación (umma) y territorio (maskan) en la filosofía política de al-Fārābī. Se destaca cómo en el planteamiento de al-Fārābī no aparece la dicotomía dār al-islām/dār al-ḥarb y se explica que eso permite interpretar que, para el filósofo, la comunidad política y su demarcación geográfica no dependen necesariamente de su identidad religiosa. Por lo tanto, se argumenta que el planteamiento filosófico de al-Fārābī descarta la división de naciones en función de su identidad religiosa. Más allá de las simples diferencias entre la ciencia jurídica y la filosofía, el artículo examina la conceptualización del territorio de al-Fārābī y sus consecuencias para la filosofía política. © 2023 Colegio de Mexico, A.C., Departamento de Publicaciones. All rights reserved.

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Group Asylum, Sovereignty, and the Ethics of Care

2020 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier , Coronado-Angulo, Cecilia

It is assumed that the states have the right to control their borders and decide whom they want to exclude, isolate, ban, or impose restrictions on. Although it seems that the problematic notion of “sovereignty” gives the state the right to make these kinds of decisions, there are situations where ethical duties to other human beings supersede sovereignty and where, in fact, those ethical duties limit sovereignty. This would be the case of group asylum situations. In this paper, we propose Axel Honneth’s ethics of recognition as a complement to the liberal notion of solidarity. By introducing a derivation of the ethics of recognition, namely, the “ethics of care,” we argue that our connection to others and the ethical duties we have with them impose some limits on the idea of sovereignty. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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Imaginación, sensación y pensamiento en los comentadores árabes y latinos de Aristóteles : (siglos X-XIII)

2005 , López-Farjeat, Luis Xavier , LUIS XAVIER LOPEZ FARJEAT;25218

El presente número de Tópicos se ha dedicado al intercambio cultural y filosófico entre árabes y latinos. Los artículos que aquí se reúnen pretenden introducir al lector a la filosofía árabe-islámica en la que destacan no sólo la traducción y glosa de Aristóteles sino también una filosofía verdaderamente propia. Algunos de los artículos que aquí se ofrecen tratan sobre lo que los árabes-islámicos entendían por filosofía; otros, sobre la psicología de Averroes, Avempache, y Al Farabi, entre otros, fuertemente influenciada por el estudio crítico del De Anima.

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