MAP OF ARTICLES BY DATE AND TITLE FOR RAREFACTIONS
A chronological guide to the writings found at this site.
(under permanent construction)
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Undergraduate Studies:
Political Science and Philosophy, McGill (B+/A- average)
Philosophy and Literature, Los Andes (A+ average)
(For now, I will not include most of these essays in this blog; they are merely intended to show some elements of my academic map)
1988, Dec: Language in Hobbes (not scanned) [essay]
1988, Dec: Dialectic in Plato (lost) [essay]
1988, Dec: Meditation and Confession as modes of self-overcoming (not scanned) [essay]
1989, May: Rosa Luxemburg and the possibility of revolutionary praxis [essay] here
1989, May: Language in Rousseau (not scanned) [essay]
1989, May: Paul Ricoeur: Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutics of suspicion (to be scanned) [essay]
1989-1995: Relatos eco-eróticos (Spanish) [poetry; separate page] here
1990, Dec: Husserl, filosofia como ciencia estricta (not scanned) [essay]
1992, Dec: Mísia Señora: problemáticas de identidad (Spanish) [essay] here
1992, Dec: James Joyce: retrato del artista como adolescente (Spanish) [essay] here
1992, Dec: Heidegger, Ser y tiempo (not scanned) [essay]
1993, Feb: Los caminos hacia Talpa: Rulfo [short essay] here
1993, May: El eterno retorno de Nietzsche [essay] here
1993, Dec: La teatralidad en Shakespeare (to be scanned) [essay]
1994, May: Las locuras en Hamlet (to be scanned) [essay]
1994, May: Preparatorios: Etica en el pensamiento Griego Clásico [oral exams]
1994, May: Magna Cum Laude Thesis: Etica y Estética en el pensamiento de Nietzsche (not scanned) [thesis]
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Master’s Political Science, University of Toronto (A/A- average; finished under severe conditions of illness)
1995, Oct: Freud’s mis-interpretation of Sophocles’ Oedipus King [essay] here
1995, Nov: Camus and Nietzsche on Nihilism [essay] here
1995, Dec: Tracing desire’s traces in Camus; a conceptual exercise [short essay] here
1995, Dec: Language. Goods and Dialogue: some tentative aspects of the immigrant condition (scanned) [essay] here
1996, Feb: Natural Justice in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics [essay] here
1996, Mar: Aristotle on courage [short essay] here
1996, Apr: Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Symposium: a presentation [essay] here
1996, Apr: Some tentative aspects of Aristotle’s understanding of noble friendship, self-love and happiness [essay] here
1996, May: The Debate over Bilingual Education in the USA [essay] here
1996, Oct: Plato and Freud: Erotic sublimation, truth and narration [essay] here
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1997, Feb: Lenguaje en Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Spanish) [essay] here
1997, Oct: Taylor vs Foucault (Spanish) [essay] here
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PhD Political Philosophy, Javeriana University (A+ average up to present)
2001, Jun: El sentido de la revolución copernicana en Kant (Spanish) [essay] here
2001, Aug: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 1: Introducción, *1 a *8 (Spanish) [essay] here
2001, Aug: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 2: Analítica Existenciaria de Dasein y Ser-en-el-mundo, *9 a *18 (Spanish) [essay] here
2001, Aug: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 3: Crítica a la concepcion cartesiana del mundo. La idea de la espacialidad del Dasein y el estar- en-el-mundo como coestar y como ser sí mismo , *19 a *27 (Spanish) [essay] here
2001, Sep: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 4: La tarea de un análisis temático del estar-en y la constitución existencial del ahí, *28 a *34 (Spanish) [essay] here
2001, Sep: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 5: El ser cotidiano del ahí y la caída del Dasein. La pregunta por la totalidad originaria del todo estructural del Dasein, *35 a *40 (Spanish) [essay] here
2001, Sep: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 6: El concepto existencial del cuidado como ser del Dasein, *41 a *44 (Spanish) [essay] here
2001, Oct: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 7: La posibilidad del estar entero de Dasein y el estar vuelto hacia la muerte , *45 a *53 (Spanish) [essay] here
2001, Oct: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 8: La atestiguación por parte del Dasein de un poder ser propio y la resolución, *54 a *60 (Spanish) [essay] here
2001, Oct: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 9: El poder estar entero propio de Dasein y la temporalidad como sentido ontológico del cuidado , *61 a *66 (Spanish) [essay] here
2001, Oct: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 10: Temporeidad y cotidianeidad, *67 a *71 (Spanish) [essay]
2001, Nov: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 11: Temporeidad e historicidad , *72 a *77 (Spanish) [essay]
2001, Nov: Seminar Heidegger’s Being and Time, No. 12: Temporeidad e intratemporeidad como origen del concepto vulgar del tiempo, *78 a *83 (Spanish) [essay]
2002, Jan: Conciencia y lenguaje: Taylor y/o Heidegger (Spanish) [essay] here
2002, Apr: Loving Taylor una posible interpretación animal de “Self-Interpreting Animals” (Spanish) [essay] here
2002, Apr: Espacialidad en Heidegger, una reconstrucción (Spanish) [essay] here
2002, Apr: Spanish Translation of Hösle, Vittorio. “The Third World as a Philosophical Problem“ (Spanish) [translation] here
2002, May: Taylor y los argumentos transcendentales (Spanish) [short essay] here
2002, Dec: Resignation letter from tenure due to illness(es) (Spanish) [letter] here
2003, Feb: Very tentative elements of illness/Elementos bien tentativos de enfermedad (Spanish) [short notes] here
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While researching PhD Thesis (no average! :-) )
2004, Sep: Carta a mi padre I (Spanish) [personal letter] here
2005, Feb: Remembering Dalí, an Analysis of Two Paintings [pictorial essay] here
2005, Mar: On Radical Linearism; some working ideas [pictorial essay] here
2005, Apr: Carta a mi padre II (Spanish) [personal letter] here
2005, May: On the City, Graffiti and Property [pictorial essay] here
2005, Jun: On Space, Western Architecture and 9/11 [pictorial essay] here
2005, Jul: On trees, deep ecology and poetry [pictorial essay] here
2005, Aug: Carta a mi padre III (Spanish) [personal letter] here
2005, Oct: On my art and “T” people [pictorial essay] here
2005, Dec: On the desire to read [short pictorial essay] here
2006, Jan: Humans, the giving animals [essay] here
2006, Jan: Socrates on love-charms and magic spells [short quote reference] here
2006, Jan: Socrates and the self-sufficient life [short quote reference] here
2006, Feb: On the erotic life and Sappho’s poetry [pictorial essay] here
2006, Sep: Carta desarrollo doctorado (Spanish) [academic/personal letter] here
2006, Oct: Response to “El Tiempo” columns 1: Comentario a María Jimena Duzán “Paz en la tumba de Uribe II”, Octubre 22 de 2006. [newspaper commentary] here
2006, Oct: Response to “El Tiempo” columns 2: Comentario a Andrés Hurtado García “Cuentas que gotean sangre”, Octubre 23 de 2006. [newspaper commentary] here
2007, Jan: Eulogy to my Father (Spanish) [letter] here
2007, Sep: An approach to photographic nudes and bodyscapes [letter] here
2007, Oct: On illness, reflections No. 1 to No. 19 [essays/short reflections]
1. Mother Theresa and the dangers of the need to help the ill.
2. The meaning of illness as a topic of conversation among friends.
3. Illness and practical wisdom in times of crisis.
4. On the saying: “Mens sana in corpore sano” (“Healthy body, healthy soul“)
5. The parable of the Good Samaritan as it might apply to illness.
6. Why can illness bring one closer to reflections on the possible nature of God?
7. The variety of illnesses: against the tendency to homogenize.
8. Patients as clients: the illness of our society and the need for a physician.
9. A conversation on illness with an older healthy man nearing death.
10. On the dangers of confusing everyday illness with chronic and serious illness.
11. Regarding my grandmother, her silence, and her illness.
12. Medical pessimism, happiness, and learning to use a wheelchair.
13. Why caretakers must reflect on the complex desires behind their care-taking.
13a. Appendix to ‘On illness 13′: “The Yellow Wallpaper”: a short story for all caretakers.
14. On the unconscious needs underlying the relation between the ill and their caretakers.
15. In search of a meaning for physical pain. here
16. Choosing a doctor and knowing yourself. here
2007, Oct: Susan Sontag, the metaphors of illness and the militaristic understanding of the ill [short essay] (On Illness 17) here
18. On illness, well-being and laughter. here
19. On the ill and a reconsideration of dependence. here
2007, Oct: Bridging, civic life and the life of reflection [short reflection] here
2007, Oct: On Socrates’ Apologies and agoristic philosophy [short reflection] here
2007, Oct: On Socratism as a way of life [short reflection/aphorism] here
2007, Oct: On the family and its reflective possibilities [essay] here
2007, Oct: Considerations as to why Socrates wrote nothing [essay] here
2007, Oct: Response to “El Tiempo” columns 3: Comentario a Eduardo Escobar “La suerte está echada”, Octubre 29 de 2007. [newspaper commentary] here
2007, Nov: What is a preposition? [essay] here
2007, Nov: T and Ω: a critical stance on our dangerous desire for overspecialization [essay] here
2007, Nov: Virtual epitaph for my father; the love of horses [essay] here
2007, Nov: Multiple migrations and reflection as the ennobling goal of immigrants [essay] here
2007, Nov: A Sketch of Van Gogh’s Cypresses [essay] here
2007, Nov: The nature of blogging and the frequently used saying “I deserve it” [short reflection] here
2007, Nov: What is a bridge? [essay] here
2007, Dec: Response to “El Tiempo” columns 4: Translation into English of Ingrid Betancourt’s letter to her mother. December 1 de 2007. [translation of newspaper column] here
2007, Dec: On Anger [essay] here
2007, Dec: On philosophical questioning and the political [short essay] here
2007, Dec: Some very tentative questions regarding brotherhood in the Bible [short reflection] here
2007, Dec: Considerations as to why Socrates went about barefoot [reflection] here
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2008+: Essays, reflections and writings dealing with possible PhD in Political Philosophy:
Charles Taylor, Aristotle and Classical Political Philosophy. (Javeriana University ?)
2008- ……. (pending)
2008, Dec: On Rarefactions a year later; final post (?) [personal reflection] here
2008, Dec: Apologetic considerations on the public appearance of the Socratic philosopher [short reflection] here
2009, Jan: Abraham Lincoln y la esclavitud, Response to “El Tiempo” columns 5: Comentario a Daniel Samper Pizano “Lincoln, un racista lleno de gloria”, enero 8 de 2009. (Spanish) [newspaper commentary] here
2009, Jan: Tentative Medical Questionnaire, (On illness 20) [long questionnaire] here
2009, Feb: Socrates and Xenophon, the philosophic and the political life [short reflection] here
2009, Feb: On Illness 21: Chronic Illness and deep-sea diving [short reflection] here
2009, Feb: Leo Strauss on moderation and the extremisms of Colombia [short reflection] here
2009, Feb: Stalinismo, humor e inteligencia, Response to “El Tiempo” columns 6: Comentario a Enrique Santos Calderón: “Canje sin arandelas: ¿mucho pedir?” Febrero 15 de 2009. (Spanish) [short newspaper commentary] here
2009, Feb: Elementos para un Educación Política Clásica, Response to “El Tiempo” columns 7: Comentario a Francisco Cajiao, “Educar para la Política”, febrero 17 de 2009. (Spanish) [long newspaper commentary] here
2009, Jun 28: Carta a mi madre / Letter to my mother (Spanish) [personal letter] here
2009, Sep: Reflections: Indicaciones para la justicia política en Platón: contra el Platón de la izquierda, Response to “El Tiempo” columns 8: Comentario a Carlos Gaviria ”Colombia y la república platónica”, agosto 29 de 2009. (Spanish). (Spanish) [long newspaper commentary] here
2009, Oct: Reflections: Brief review of Professor Bartlett’s on-line course: “Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle” [brief on-line course review] here
