Este artículo analiza críticamente tres modelos diferentes del ser humano: el homo faber, o humanismo tecnocrático, dominante en la modernidad desde Descartes y Bacon hasta Marx; el homo natura y el homo ludens, que representan modelos antihumanistas de la modernidad tardía. Frente a estos modelos podemos encontrar un cuarto: el homo patiens o humanismo excéntrico, abierto a Dios, los otros y la naturaleza. Sólo este modelo da un fundamento consistente a la universalidad de los derechos porque este identifica los conceptos (...) de persona y ser humano. (shrink)

Scant attention has been paid to the notion of property in Hannah Arendt’s thought, and this paper aims to address this gap. For Arendt, property is the realm of privacy, located in the house. She argues that the modern age represented its loss with the expropriation of the peasant classes after the Reformation. As a result, wealth started to be accumulated and became productive through the labor of the new propertyless classes. This new way of dealing with property needed a (...) new notion of property for the laborers. Locke’s understanding gave the laborers the hope of being property-owners through their labor and simultaneously justified the unending accumulation of money; nevertheless, property in its true meaning was never recovered. Arendt believes that recovering property under conditions of equality is an essential consideration, and this egalitarian vision of property only can be achieved if law protects property as well as set limits on the accumulation of wealth. (shrink)

Discusses contemporary notions of the self, and examines their origins, development, and effects.

Discusses the nature of thought and volition, examines past philosophical theories, and clarifies the relation between will and freedom.