“Nadie enciende una luz para después cubrirla con una vasija, ni la pone debajo de la cama, sino que la pone en un candelabro para que los que entren vean la luz.” (Lucas 8:16)
Mi queridísima, creyente y dulce madre,
Recorriendo el paso de los años llegamos hoy, en un nuevo junio 28, a aquel número ya [...]
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Carta a mi madre / Letter to my mother (Spanish)
Posted in on Aristotle, on Nicomachean Ethics, on Pangle, on feminism, on friendship, on giving, on politics, philosophy, political rhetoric, tagged amelo14, amistad, andresmelo, Aristotle, Biblia, carta, carta a mi madre, Colombia, friendship, letters, madre, madres, political rhetoric, rarefaction, retorica, The Bible on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections: Elementos para una Educación Política Clásica, Response to “El Tiempo” columns 7: Comentario a Francisco Cajiao: “Educar para la Política”
Posted in Philosophical topics, Response to "EL Tiempo" columns (Spanish), on Leo Strauss, on Nicomachean Ethics, on Pangle, on agoristic philosophy, on liberal education, on politics, on prudential questioning, philosophy, tagged agora, agoristic, amelo14, andresmelo, Colombia, columnistas, filosofía política clásica, Francisco Cajiao, on Socrates, Pangle, philosophy, political philosophy, politics, rarefaction, reflection, Strauss on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections: Response to “El Tiempo” columns 7: Comentario a Francisco Cajiao: “Educar para la Política”, febrero 17 de 2009.
Debo decir que es casi siempre un verdadero placer leer sus columnas. Su profundo conocimiento de las dinámicas educativas de Colombia es admirable.
Ahora bien, considero que en su columna sobre educación para la política hay varios elementos [...]
Reflections: Tentative Medical Questionnaire, (On Illness 20)
Posted in Philosophical topics, The Yellow Wallpaper, on health, on illness, on pain, on questions, philosophy, tagged amelo14, andresmelo, health, illness, medical questionnaire, on illness 20, questions on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections: Tentative Medical Questionnaire , (On illness 20)
1. Primary Question: Have you been seriously ill yourself?
Secondary Related Questions: For how long? Can you articulate what the fundamental differences are between being ill and having an accident? Have you ever become fully dependent? Have you ever asked for the multiplicity of favors required in illness? [...]
Reflections: Some very tentative questions regarding brotherhood in the Bible
Posted in On the Bible, Philosophical topics, on Plato, on Socrates, on Xenophon, on anger, on brotherhood, on ethics, on justice, on the family, philosophy, philosophy (short), tagged Abel, amelo14, andresmelo, anger, brothers, Cain, family, Joseph, on Socrates, Parable of Lost Son, philosophy, rarefaction, reflection, religion, The Bible, thoughts, Xenophon on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Three biblical stories, two in the Old Testament ——specifically in Genesis—— and one in the New Testament, might aid us in trying to understand, however imperfectly and sketchily, the issue of brotherhood in the Bible. The first story is the well-known story of Cain and Abel; the second, the well-known story of Joseph; and [...]
Reflections: On illness 14
Posted in books, on Aristophanes, on Aristotle, on Like Water for Chocolate, on Nicomachean Ethics, on Symposium, on illness, philosophy (short), tagged amelo14, andresmelo, Aristotle, caretakers, illness, needs, philosophy, rarefaction, reflection on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On the unconscious needs underlying the relation between the ill and their caretakers.
One of the difficulties which lies at the basis of much possible conflict between the ill and caretakers is this. Most of us seem to unconsciously desire in our lives someone who will be there for us in the worst of times, those [...]
Reflections: Appendix to ‘On illness 13′
Posted in The Yellow Wallpaper, books, literature, on Charlotte Perkins, on ethics, on feminism, on illness, tagged amelo14, andresmelo, illness, literature, needs, Perkins, rarefaction, reflection, The Yellow Wallpaper on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Appendix to ‘On illness 13′: “The Yellow Wallpaper”: a short story for all caretakers.
THIS SHORT STORY SHOULD BE A MUST READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING, AT LEAST IN PART, THE DEEP UNCONSCIOUS NEEDS WHICH LIE AT THE BOTTOM OF OUR RELATIONS TO THE ILL. IN THIS RESPECT, THIS POST IS A [...]
Reflections: On illness 13
Posted in books, on Aristotle, on Nicomachean Ethics, on caretakers, on courage, on ethics, on illness, philosophy (short), tagged amelo14, andresmelo, illness, needs, philosophy, rarefaction, recognition, reflection on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Why caretakers must reflect on the complex desires behind their care-taking.
One of the main reasons as to why reflective self-transformations among caretakers is so difficult lies in the deep need caretakers have of perceiving themselves as doing good to others. Each caretaker must seriously reflect on the nature of such a troubling human need. If [...]
Reflections: On Socratism as a way of life
Posted in on Aristotle, on Nicomachean Ethics, on Plato, on Socrates, on Xenophon, on academic philosophy, on courage, on ethics, on liberal education, on politics, on the Apology, philosophy, philosophy (short), tagged agora, amelo14, andresmelo, apology, Aristotle, on Socrates, philosophy, politics, rarefaction, reflection on October 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Those of us who regard Socrates as a serious contender as regards the direction of our lives, can and should seriously ask:
Can one live the Socratic life without knowing and being confronted directly by a Thrasymachus, by a Callicles, by an Anytus, by a Meletus, by a Lycon? Can one become a Socratic disciple without [...]
Reflections: On Socrates’ Apologies and agoristic philosophy
Posted in books, on Aristotle, on Nicomachean Ethics, on Plato, on Socrates, on Xenophon, on agoristic philosophy, on courage, on ethics, on the Apology, philosophy (short), tagged agora, agoristic, amelo14, andresmelo, apology, Aristotle, on Socrates, philosophy, rarefaction, reflection on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For those of us who find the life of Socrates to be a truly philosophical life, perhaps THE model of the philosophical life, some aspects of his two Apologies (for I take Xenophon’s Apology as seriously as Plato’s) truly stand out.
First, these apologies are intended as a defense, a juridical defense of a way of [...]
Reflections: Resignation letter regarding tenure due to illness(es) (Spanish)
Posted in Philosophical topics, education, letters, on Aristotle, on Nicomachean Ethics, on academic philosophy, on eros, on health, on illness, tagged amelo14, andresmelo, education, illness, letter, PhD, philosophy, political rhetoric, tenure, university on December 4, 2002 | Leave a Comment »
Santafé de Bogotá,
Diciembre 4 de 2002,
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA
DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOSOFÍA
Padre Vicente Durán
Decano
Facultad de Filosofía
REF: CONTINUACIÓN LABORAL CON LA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA
SEMESTRE I 2003
Estimado Padre Durán:
Por medio de la presente quisiera hacerle saber padre que he tomado la difícil decisión de no continuar el próximo semestre como profesor de planta en la Universidad Javeriana. ¿Qué decirle, padre, [...]
