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ACTIVIDAD 4. Christabel Torres
ACTIVIDAD 4. Christabel Torres
ABSTRACT #1
ABSTRACT #2
One of the most controvertible subjects in Martin Heidegger´s thinking is that about Deity; this article is an
attempt to clarify his argument about it. In order to reach this point this article explain silence in Heidegger´s
studies about God, and his critical approach, both topics address a nihilist and technical border surrounding the
world, and this is an approach to Heidegger´s negative thinking. However, pessimism is not the goal of
Heidegger´s approach to the World, instead of it embraces an arrival of the last God, and this is the first sign to
the other beginning, in other words his positive thinking.
ABSTRACT #3
"Poverty, Life and Animality in Heideggers Thought". Heideggers 1929 lectures published under the title The
Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude inquire about the animality of the animal.
Their intention is to elucidate the aspect in which the peculiarity of life resides and that, eluding every attempt of
getting caught under mechanistic or biological interpretations, Heidegger finds in what he names "poverty". In
this context, this paper intends to investigate the link between this poverty, the one that characterizes the animal
in 1929, and the consideration of the peculiarity of man in the same terms since 1945. Through this
investigation, our goal will be to make explicit the ontological bond between humanity, animality and
corporealness present in men.
ABSTRACT #4
Discourse Theory claims that what was traditionally conceived of as moral and political reason can be
reformulated by means of a practical-communicative reason that is embedded in the dialogue processes and in
the argumentative procedures. This article examines both Habermas arguments for such a transformation of
practical reason and the status of discourse principle as a general principle of justification based on the
communicative rationality. The fundamental concepts in the formulation of discourse principle are analyzed.
Finally, the article exposes some implications of the discursive transformation for the public use of practical
reason.