Ángel Poncela-González

• PhD
• Head of Department at University of Salamanca

We start from a line of research that studies the prophetic knowledge in Islamic philosophy of the classical period, as a symbol and a promise of perfect knowledge which can be reached by man. And from this place, we ask after the meaning of perfect knowledge in Suarez’s epistemology. We will discuss a number of issues that will emerge from the ana...

This essay aims to analyze the anthropological dimension of the theory of dominium following the treatment and solution provided by Domingo de Soto in De dominio and in De iustitia et iure. We will analyze dominium as a species of natural law based on the human condition of creature, confronting it with the legal institution of slavery. In an intro...

Nuestro propósito se cifra en esta ocasión, en mostrar los motivos filosóficos que condujeron al Martin Heidegger a introducir la metafísica suareciana en la configuración de su ontología existenciaria. Tomaremos como hilo conductor la historia del ser y más en concreto, la de su olvido en favor del ente y que Heidegger desarrolló en diferentes esc...

The idea of the good has constituted in the western metaphysics a central role in the regimentation of anthropologic theories of diverse nature. We deal in the present study, in sole right, of the conception supported by the Spanish thinker Francisco Suárez in his Disputationes Metaphysicae. We depart from the reflection of the good, as transcenden...

Departing from a reduction of the person’s concept to one of his more typical notes, which is, the freedom, we propose a review of the theory of the free arbitrament exposed by Francisco Suárez, attending with exclusivity to his writings episthemics and metaphysicians more significant. The extension of the question urges us to reduce the company to...