“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 [...]
Archive for the ‘on Nicomachean Ethics’ Category
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: 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: 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, [...]
Reflections: Aristotle on courage
Posted in books, on Aristotle, on Nicomachean Ethics, on Socrates, on courage, on liberal education, on politics, philosophy (short), tagged amelo14, andresmelo, Aristotle, courage, ethics, Nicomachean ethics, on Socrates, philosophy, politics, rarefaction, reflection on April 15, 1996 | Leave a Comment »
In order to try to better understand the different ways in which the moral virtues are exhibited and understood, on the one hand, by the person pursuing the theoretical life, and on the other, by the one who seeks the practical life, I propose to briefly look at the specific moral virtue of courage [...]
Reflections: Some tentative aspects of Aristotle’s understanding of noble friendship, self-love and happiness
Posted in books, on Aristotle, on Montaigne, on Nicomachean Ethics, on ethics, on friendship, on liberal education, on politics, philosophy, tagged amelo14, andresmelo, Aristotle, friendship, Montaigne philosophy, noble, rarefaction, reflection, self-love on April 3, 1996 | Leave a Comment »
INTRODUCTION
The very fact that Aristotle dedicates two complete books to the issue of friendship, coupled with the strategically important positioning of the discussion —–suspiciously close to the final considerations on the supreme value of the contemplative life and its relation to happiness—— immediately lets it known to the reader that she is entering what is [...]
Reflections: Natural Justice in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Posted in on Aristotle, on Leo Strauss, on Nicomachean Ethics, on ethics, on justice, philosophy, tagged amelo14, andresmelo, Aquinas, Aristotle, ethics, justice, Nicomachean ethics, philosophy, politics, rarefaction, reflection on February 18, 1996 | Leave a Comment »
INTRODUCTION
One of the main reasons why an understanding of the relationship between ‘natural right’ and ‘conventional right’ must be high in the hierarchy of activities we engage in, lies in that its consideration brings to light the difficult issues of relativity between, and criticality of, different political communities. The extremely compressed passage in which [...]
