Los presocráticos

Presents a selection of writings and excerpts from talks by Paramahansa Yogananda on the topic of overcoming fear and worries in order to achieve happiness, be successful, and improve one's health.

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethicopolitical conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it.In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political...

Borges imaginó una vez el «Libro de los libros», «un libro que sea la cifra y el compendio perfecto de todos los demás: algún bibliotecario lo ha recorrido y es análogo a un dios.» Esta fascinante imagen, al sugerir la idea de que la forma-libro puede abarcar el universo entero y la misma omnisciencia divina, puede ser recordada, a modo de patrocinio poético, para presentar la Enciclopedia de obras de filosofía. También esta obra es a su manera, en un sentido restringido, un «libro de los libros» donde se recogen los principales textos que han tejido la historia del pensamiento...

Trabajo/Tesis de Licenciatura del año 2012 en eltema Filosofía - Otras, Nota: 6,8 (de 7), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Instituto de Filosofía), Idioma: Español, Resumen: The main objective of this work is to build a systematization of Pierre Hadot ́s method of interpreting ancient philosophical texts. The kernel of his method is the conviction that, throughout most of the classical antiquity, philosophy was understood and lived mainly as a way of life. Hence, the first chapter introduces Hadot ́s panoramical understanding of the "phenomenon" of philosophy in antiquity and...