https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/issue/feedRevista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica2025-01-14T15:11:43-06:00George García Quesadageorge.garcia@ucr.ac.crOpen Journal Systems<p>The journal of Philosophy of the University of Costa Rica is the mean of dissemination of philosophical work of the Costa Rican philosophical community. It has opened the pages to contributions from other countries. It is published in Spanish but also in English, French, and German, although in these cases is by invitation. Since 1957, the year of its inception, the Journal of Philosophy of the University of Costa Rica has published, uninterrupted, high academic rigor articles in all areas of philosophy. Currently, the journal publishes three times a year, every four months. The contributions of academics from all over the world are welcome.</p>https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/63453Ignacio Quirós Salgado. No Title 2025-01-14T11:11:35-06:00Rocío Zamora-Saumamariadelrocio.zamora@ucr.ac.cr2025-01-14T00:00:00-06:00Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Ricahttps://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/63416Perspectivas de la imaginación. Las sociedades gaseosa. María Noel Lapoujade. México: UNAM, 2022. 223 pp.2025-01-11T14:40:23-06:00Peggy von Mayer Chavesvonmayer@yahoo.es2025-01-14T00:00:00-06:00Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Ricahttps://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/59970The way of sensation: Notes on the aesthetics of painting in Merleau-Ponty2024-07-12T16:21:12-06:00Nicolás Fagiolinicofagioli@gmail.com<p>In this writing, we delve into some of Merleau-Ponty’s considerations regarding painting. The exploration will be guided by the notion of sensation, a concept that the philosopher adopts from the French painter Paul Cézanne. The aim is to elucidate how the author finds, in Cézanne and in modernist painting in general, a pathway to construct a new conception of sensory experience. This conception will be central to the philosopher’s later reflections, particularly those in which the ontological aspect of his philosophy is emphasized, mainly developed in The Visible and the Invisible.</p>2025-01-20T00:00:00-06:00Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Ricahttps://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/61031The machine is an allagmatic being2024-07-12T16:51:36-06:00Hector Ariel Feruglio Ortizgiovanniferuglio@gmail.com<p>This era is characterized by a great epistemic mutation that emerges from a redefinition of the link between the human, the technical and the living. These mutations allowed the emergence of new discursive formations organized from an infocommunicative background. Within this new order of knowledge, the notion of machine emerges as an epistemic figure with great heuristic potential. Our work is aimed at specifying the scope of this figure as a paradigm of intelligibility based on the contributions of Gilbert Simondon. To achieve this purpose, we will describe the individuation process from a Simondonian perspective to present an epistemological technology aimed at the formation of new paradigms. We consider that proposing the machine as an allagmatic being offers us a reflective technology that can contribute significantly to the epistemic conformation of the posthuman sciences.</p>2025-01-14T00:00:00-06:00Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Ricahttps://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/60298Abstrac Labor, Mediation and Historical Knowledge2024-07-12T16:01:16-06:00Ignacio Cognigniignacognigni@hotmail.com<p>The nature of abstract labor in Marx's work has been widely discussed since the publication of Volume I of Capital. Its centrality in explaining value and the exploitation of wage labor establishes it not only as a central dimension of capitalism but also as a dimension with significant potential for interpreting social relations in other modes of production. In this regard, this paper aims to discuss, from some current theoretical contributions, the potential of abstract labor as an articulating category—among other possible and coexisting ones—of historiographical knowledge. To this end, after an introduction that presents the foundations of the problem, we will conduct a brief historical review of the forms that labor took in precapitalist social formations to compare them with capitalist forms. Finally, we will propose some theoretical consequences of this review, namely, that abstract labor constitutes an interpretative pathway for the change and transformation of social relations of production in different social formations.</p>2025-01-14T00:00:00-06:00Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Ricahttps://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/59671Gradual and categorical separation in the Phaedo2024-08-24T12:58:56-06:00Jesus Alfonso Peña RaigozaPraigoz@hotmail.com<p class="p1">One of the problems for Plato's theory of Ideas is “separation.” And that this has a unique meaning. I propose that Plato saw “separation” non-univocally, believing that it occurs in two important ways. One that I will call “gradual” and another stronger that I will call “categorical”, and that the <em>Phaedo</em> shows these two different types of separation when talking about the soul. This leaves the door open to a moral interpretation of separation and contributes to diluting the mind-body problem. Also, it could support a non-univocal interpretation of the separation of the Forms.</p>2025-01-14T00:00:00-06:00Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Ricahttps://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/61966Between Order and Justice: Goethe's Stance on Violence2024-10-08T09:29:16-06:00Arturo Rojas Alvaradoarturo.rojasalvarado@ucr.ac.cr<p>The present article discusses Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s (1749-1832) stance on violence, primarily based on his experience during the Siege of Mainz, through the notions of order and justice presented in some passages of his work.</p>2025-01-14T00:00:00-06:00Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Ricahttps://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/63452The Platonizing allegorization2025-01-14T10:43:20-06:00Luis Diego Cascante Fallasluis.cascante@ucr.ac.cr<p>This study investigates Christian (Valentinian) gnosis through Platonizing allegorization. This category serv:s as a key to Gnostic metaphysics (Judeo-Christian content), both for interpreting the Gnostic fragment of <em>Oxyrhynchus no. 1081</em> and for examining Valentinian gnosis, the largest Gnostic corpus that has survived. To achieve this, the study provides the background, translation, and exegesis of the fragment. It is then interpreted and ultimately situated within the broader context of Valentinian gnosis, revealing this path as a particular alternative stemming from Plato's philosophy.</p>2025-01-14T00:00:00-06:00Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica