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MASSIMO BORGHESI Pablo Castellanos URBANO FERRER OpenREVISTA DE FILOSOFÍA Insight Volumen V • Número 7 • Enero 2014 ISSN: 2007–2406 ❖ Razón y fe cristiana Número monográco en memoria del Annus Fidei MASSIMO BORGHESI Pablo Castellanos Mariano Crespo URBANO FERRER Volumen V • Número 7 • Enero 2014 7 • Enero V • Número Volumen MIGUEL GARCÍABARO Rodrigo Guerra Luis Guerrero Martínez RAFAEL JIMÉNEZ CATAÑO MARILÚ MARTÍNEZ FISHER Jarosław Merecki SDS JOHN MILBANK JUAN CARLOS MORENO ROMO INÉS RIEGO DE MOINE pen Insight DANIEL PÉREZ O JOSE-LUIS RIVERA KARL JOSEF ROMER DIEGO I. ROSALES JOSEF SEIFERT MÁTYÁS SZALAY MARCELA VENEBRA IGNACIO VERDÚ Av. Fray Luis de León 1000 Centro Sur Santiago de Querétaro, Qro. 76090, México +52(442)245-2214 www.cisav.mx www.openinsight.mx ISSN: 2007-2406 Submission guidelines for Open Insight: Director: Diego I. Rosales Meana Editor: Juan Manuel Escamilla Redacción: Lourdes Gállego Martín del Campo 1. Open Insight is an specialized journal on Philoso- 9. 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With exception of classical authors, for whom the 76090 México conventional system must be used -e.g. Diels-Kranz for Presocratics; Bekker for Aristotle; Addam- La Revista de filosofía Open Insight, Tannery for Descartes-, there will be used the APA volumen V, número 7, enero de 2014 system for quotation, bracketing the last name of the author, year of the publication and page. es una publicación editada por el Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada, A.C. Fray Luis de León 1000, Colonia Centro Sur, Querétaro, Qro. C.P. 76090. (Author, year: page)Footnotes will be reserved for Tel.: (442) 245 2214, [email protected] author commentaries only. Editor responsable: Juan Manuel Escamilla González Aragón. Reserva de derecho al uso exclusivo: en trámite. ISSN: 2007–2406. Impresa por HEAR Industria Gráfica, Calle Uno Nº 101, Zona Industrial Benito Juárez (Ampliación Juríca), C.P. 76120, Querétaro, Qro. Este ejemplar se terminó de imprimir el 30 de enero del 2014 con un tiraje de 500 ejemplares. Las opiniones expresadas por los autores no necesariamente reflejan la postura de los editores de la publicación. Queda prohibida la reproducción total o parcial de los contenidos de la publicación sin previa autorización del Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada. REVISTA DE FILOSOFÍA Open Insight VOLUMEN V • NÚMERO 7 • ENERO 2014 CONTENIDO EDITORIAL Pablo Castellanos López y Rodrigo Guerra López 3 Un caminar que no cesa. Año de la fe y racionalidad filosófica ESTUDIOS Massimo Borghesi 9 Cristo y Prometeo. Tragicismo, titanismo, redención Urbano Ferrer 33 Fe, razón, persona: de la creencia como dimensión antropológica al acto personal de fe Luis Guerrero Martínez 61 Fe, esperanza y caridad. La vida cristiana en Søren Kierkegaard John Milbank 77 Dignity Rather than Right Juan Carlos Moreno Romo 125 Contra el tan absurdo obscurantismo de nuestros tan atolondrados tiempos para, post, hiper o trans… modernos Inés Riego de Moine 157 Sobre el Dios de la experiencia que viene al discurso de la razón Mátyás Szalay 185 Edith Stein, Patron of Europe. Meditation on Philosophy as Testimony NOTAS Mariano Crespo 215 Nota sobre la actitud del cristiano que se dedica a la filosofía Rafael Jiménez Cataño 227 Ambigüedades del rechazo de la verdad Jarosław Merecki SDS 239 Moral Experience, Ethics and the Christian Faith in the Thought of Tadeusz Styczen José-Luis Rivera 251 ¿Puede haber una “filosofía cristiana”? Karl Josef Romer 271 Esperar contra toda esperanza Ignacio Verdú 287 Confianza y misterio. La vulnerabilidad como apertura y vida de la razón COLOQUIO Rodrigo Guerra López 303 Love the truth, the whole truth, and the truth about everything An Interview with Josef Seifert Diego I. Rosales Meana 343 Amar la vida. Entrevista a Miguel García-Baró RESEÑAS BIBLIOGRÁFICAS La universidad por hacer, de Luis Alberto Castrillón López 377 por Marilú Martínez Fisher Living in the End Times, de Slavoj Žižek 385 por Daniel Pérez Hambre de Dios, de Juan Carlos Moreno Romo 393 por Diego I. Rosales Meana Pensando en la religión, de Javier San Martín y Juan José Sánchez 401 por Marcela Venebra EDITORIAL Un caminar que no cesa. Año de la fe y racionalidad filosófica “Eres cuchillito de palo”. Con esta expresión los mexicanos nos referimos, de una manera coloquial, a quien se presenta tenaz, persistente y en ocasiones hasta terco en la persecu- ción de la tarea acometida. Un “cuchillo de palo” termina cumpliendo su objetivo tras un largo esfuerzo. No deja de ser curioso que la expresión tenga algún parecido con la que usó Martin Heidegger precisamente para referirse a la “filo- sofía cristiana”. En efecto, en su Introducción a la metafísica el célebre fi- lósofo alemán anotó que la filosofía cristiana es un “hierro de madera” debido a que, según él, la filosofía es para la fe una necedad. Dicho de otro modo: no sólo a la filosofía le re- pugna una relación positiva con la fe cristiana, sino que es la misma fe la que como obra de Dios no requiere del filosofar. La peculiar manera como Heidegger concibe a la filosofía cristiana posee muchos supuestos que no podríamos abor- dar en este breve espacio. Sin embargo, lo que sí requerimos afirmar es que la cuestión sobre la existencia de la filosofía cristiana no queda eliminada y permanece como insisten- te reclamo a la reflexión filosófica, incluso al interior del pensamiento del propio Heidegger, como lo ha destacado recientemente Philippe Capelle-Dumont. De manera amistosa o polémica, hace casi dos milenios que la filosofía y la fe cristiana, como “cuchillito de palo”, no cesan de encontrarse, ayudarse o enfrentarse. Tan esto es verdad que en los comienzos del tercer milenio no podemos más que señalar que ambas realidades no pueden ignorarse y más bien están invitadas a recibir el influjo de una en la otra.
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