Roberto Solarte

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Pontifical Xavierian University

Los ejercicios institucionales yo comunitarios sobre las memorias del conflicto colombiano han adquirido protagonismo en las dos últimas décadas. En medio de las luces y sombras de este boom memorial, en este artículo de reflexión se plantea la pregunta: ¿en qué sentido el recurso a la memoria permite comprender las maneras locales de navegar prese...

This is a research project that emerged from a bigger one called: Memory of future in the magdalena medio. (Colombia, South America). The proyect gained economic and technical support from the National General Archive (Archivo General de la Nación) winning the cathegory of Archives and Human Rights. The main aim of this project was to analyze and d...

An analytical comparison between Hegel's and Girard's readings of Miguel Cervantes Saavedra's novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha is discussed in this essay. Both approaches are confronted in their understanding of mimetic relationships, and about the scopes and alternatives to death struggles between rivals. Hegel's interpretati...

This text aims at Social Responsibility of enterprises using Hegel's and Girard's insights about institutions and violence. Hegel talks about claiming responsibility for decisions and their effects. Since enterprises are economical institutions oriented to satisfy private interests, they are inadequate to the demand of a universal guarantee for cit...

This text reflects upon the way in which Rene Girard's Mimetic Theory has been applied to concrete research practice. It argues from the major difference made by Heidegger between the inquiry of science and the questioning of philosophy. This being the context from which Girard asks about the origin in order to track down the original omnipresent v...

This paper discusses the problem of violence as legitimate means for the work of Christians in search of justice, and centers on the problem of just war. It uses a reading of the Scriptures in non-sacrificial perspective as a fundament for conversion that makes possible a following of Jesus in the practice of non-violence.

Esta investigación trabaja sobre el tema de la responsabilidad social de las empresas a partir de la teoría de los sistemas sociales comprendidos como sistemas que se autorregulan a través de la violencia, tal como ha propuesto René Girard. Para lograr pensar filosóficamente este problema, los conceptos de mimesis y sacrificio de Girard se confront...