Pasajes al posthumanismo

Von Balthasar regards love as the only key and foundation of Christianity. He is not talking about any kind of love, but a love that is God himself, in his fullness of life, a love that is the source, beginning, and foundation of all things. This love has been revealed at the cross of Jesus and poured by the Spirit on the believers' hearts. Only his love can guarantee the full reality of both God and the world. Von Balthasar defines this brief book as a programmatic one. It is an early synthesis of all his theology, a classic yet updated work, indispensable to know how Christian faith is...

"Reflexiones o sentencias y m�ximas morales", de Fran�ois de La Rochefoucauld. Fran�ois de La Rochefoucauld fue un escritor, arist�crata y militar franc�s, conocido, sobre todo, por sus M�ximas (1613-1680)

“Si está en tus manos, ¿qué haces? Si en las de otro, ¿por qué te enojas? ¿Átomos o dioses? ¿Ambas cosas son extravíos? No hay que enojarse con nadie: pues si puedes, corrígelo; si no puedes corregirlo a él, hazlo con la cosa misma; si tampoco esto es posible, ¿de qué te sirve enojarte? No se debe obrar sin propósito”. Dentro del mundo de la filosofía, existen libros de una mayor o menor utilidad práctica. Meditaciones, de Marco Aurelio, lo es. Con un lenguaje claro y familiar ofrece enseñanzas sencillas y concisas que mejora nuestra vida si logramos asimilarlas...

Whilst he was writing De principatibus, was Machiavelli really as out of touch with the Florentine politico-institutional world as his letter of December 1513 claims? Who read Il principe prior to its publication, and how? Why did the philosopher Agostino Nifo, one of the major proponents of renaissance Averroism, plagiarize it? To what extent is the Machiavellian “principato civile” comprehensible only by way of its Medicean and Florentine affiliation? Did the young Lorenzo de’ Medici’s political programme seek to eliminate the Roman church? What politico-cultural stance is hidden...