Diego Pérez Lasserre

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at San Sebastián University

This paper aims to justify that mysticism can be considered rational from the perspective of practical reason. Particularly, we will argue that mysticism embodies the oxymoron inherent in practical wisdom (phronesis), namely, an ordered openness. Our roadmap for substantiating this hypothesis is as follows: we will start by explaining that if the c...

Para quienes venimos siguiendo las reflexiones de Hugo Herrera, su libro sobre Góngora no es una sorpresa. El filósofo y jurista chileno centra su atención en este pensador del siglo XX no solo debido a la titánica tarea que realizó, sino porque observa que Góngora, al igual que él, se percató del fundamental problema al que se enfrenta la comprens...

The study aims at justifying the thesis that the inclusion of concepts belonging to the mystical tradition, as portrayed by David R. Hawkins, enriches philosophical hermeneutics. The road map designed for the purpose is as follows: By providing hermeneutical context regarding human understanding a theoretical background is created for an argument t...

Este trabajo tiene por finalidad justificar que en sus obras tempranas Schmitt, a partir de su análisis jurídico y político, elucida algunas estructuras ontológicas que operan en todo el conocimiento humano. En particular, se evidenciará que en estos trabajos el jurista alemán identifica y ahonda en la finitud y la historicidad (en su sentido perso...

Este trabajo pretende justificar que, aun cuando es cierto que hay diferencias entre la filosofía aristotélica y la schmittiana, existe un punto de conexión entre ambos en lo que se refiere a la prudencia. En particular, se pretende demostrar que en la descripción que hace Schmitt de la función del juez en Ley y Juicio (1912) y en Sobre los tres mo...

In his first legal texts (1912-1922), Schmitt repeatedly engages in criticizing what is known as “legal positivism”'. His main objection, as it is well seen in Law and Judgment (1912), is that this theory remains in the pure abstraction of legal texts and does not take into account the concrete aspects of reality to which the normative categories s...

Objective Hermeneutics: Emilio Betti’s Case Hermenêutica objetiva: o caso de Emilio Betti En el presente trabajo defenderemos que, en su teoría de la interpretación, Emilio Betti toma como base una estructura ontológica de la comprensión humana que resulta inadecuada. En particular, justificaremos que, si bien Betti reconoce ciertas estructuras e...

The practical difficulties involved in the use of the concepts will of the law and the will of the legislator and then justifies that the use of this terms responds to an avoidance of the political responsibility inherent to the legal decision.

Este trabajo tiene por finalidad analizar el pensamiento hermenéutico-jurídico gadameriano con la finalidad de justificar que las presuntas insuficiencias de su pensamiento no responden a carencias del mismo, sino a la óptica desde la cual este autor se aproxima al problema de la interpretación jurídica.

On this paper, we intend to make a psychological description of Creon as presented in Antigone, Sophocles tragedy. First, we will make a general description of the narcissistic personalities, based on the descriptions that the DSM-V and some authors (particularly Otto Kernberg) make of this personality disorder. Then we will show that Creon’s case...

Este artículo propone renovar la comprensión del dolo civil por vía hermenéutica. En particular, se plantea la necesidad y utilidad de la aplicación de la prueba indiciaria, así como su estándar probatorio, al caso dolo civil. En definitiva, este trabajo no tiene por finalidad hacer un giro objetivo en la comprensión del dolo, sino que proponer un...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a legitimizing criterion of the legal decision based on the intersubjectivity of the community of judges based on Carl Schmitt’s thought, as well as other philosophers and jurists who have faced the same problem

Este trabajo tiene por finalidad reconstruir la línea argumentativa que sigue Heidegger en su obra Nietzsche sobre la relación entre el pensamiento de la voluntad de poder y la técnica moderna, el cual es enunciado por Heidegger en dicha obra, pero no desarrollado de manera sistemática.

Three different epistemological approaches to the Law of the Indies can be evidenced throughout the 20th century. First, the one proposed by Rafael Altamira and Ricardo Levene, emphasizing historical and sociological aspects. Alfonso García-Gallo, on the other hand, explores a new perspective that criticizes said vision and stands for a rather mark...

The present article intends to review the discussion between causalists and finalists in Criminal Law from the analysis of the freedom that Kant makes in the third antinomy of his Critique of Pure Reason, in order to bring to light the underlying theme in this discussion and to review its attainment.

Three different epistemological approaches to the Law of the Indies can be evidenced throughout the 20th century. First, the one proposed by Rafael Altamira and Ricardo Levene, emphasizing historical and sociological aspects. Alfonso García-Gallo, on the other hand, explores a new perspective that criticizes said vision and stands for a rather mark...

In his discussion about the status of the inhabitants of the New World, Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de Las Casas evoke arguments from the book I of Aristotle's Politics to justify their position. The first one says that the Indians correspond to what Aristotle understood as slaves by nature. Although Sepúlveda was not in favor of slavery, he c...