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Institute of Practical Philosophy and Legal Humanism
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School of Law and Social Sciences
Presentation
Modern philosophy, especially since Hume, was characterized among other things by the attempt to banish from its scope all rational and rigorous consideration of human praxis and its adequate regulation. And it was not just an attempt - never realized - to develop a practical philosophy based on a model of the exact sciences, as in the case of Descartes, but rather a flat-out rejection of the very possibility of its existence.
The final result of this rejection, in which the Scottish skeptic was followed by the positivists, the physicalists, Nietzsche and his followers, Marxism, the emotivisms, as well as a large majority of analytical philosophers, was the exclusion of the ends, norms or values referring to human praxis in the realm of rationality and its consequent confinement within the framework of emotion, decision or the will to power.
The consequence of all this was the inability of reason - especially philosophical reason - to think scientifically about the principles of human praxis; Philosophy, if there was any place left for it, had to study only the methods of particular sciences or the genealogy of moral systems, but it had nothing to do when it came to determining the norms and values of human action.
Faced with this situation, ruinous for ethical-political thought, numerous authors attempted to criticize it and rehabilitate the rational way of thinking about human praxis. Among them we can count some precursors: Leo Strauss, Chaim Perelman, Max Scheler, Michel Villey, Eric Voegelin, Enrico Berti, Jacques Maritain, Romano Guardini and several more. This movement, first called "rehabilitation of practical philosophy" by Karl-Heinz Ilting in 1964, took definitive shape with the appearance, between 1972 and 1974, of two collective volumes with the title «Rehabilitierung der praktischen Philosophie».
Authorities
Dr. Carlos Ignacio Massini Correas
Director
Dr. Fernando A. Bermúdez
Central Campus Secretary
Dr. María Candelaria Egea
Campus Secretary San Rafael
MISSION
The rehabilitation of practical philosophy will have the mission of reestablishing legal thinking from instances of dialogue and discussion that allow recovering the academic encounter between teachers and students within the framework of the university community, returning to praxis its meaning and purpose.
VISION
The Institute of Practical Philosophy and Legal Humanism wants to continue with this line of rehabilitation of Practical Philosophy and make a current contribution to the new challenges that legal-political praxis imposes in the 20thI century on the disoriented men of our days, and especially on the operators of the legal life of nations.
OBJECTIVES
Among its particular objectives it aspires to:
- Promote rigorous research in the legal humanities.
- Conduct research sessions, discussion seminars and dissemination of practical philosophy topics, organize conferences and congresses, and any other activity that makes dialogue possible between scholars of that branch of philosophy.
- Publish books, essays, reviews, articles, notes on the main topics of practical philosophy, especially legal philosophy, for the dissemination and fixation of the ideas generated at the Institute.
CONTACT
- Institute email: institute.filosofiapractica@um.edu.ar
- Institute address: School de
Law and Social Sciences, Universidad de Mendoza, Central Campus.
MEMBERS
Members:
Local:
- Dr. Tomás Catapano
- Dr. Patricio López
- Dr. Eliana de Rosa
- Lic. Mario Descotte
- Dr. Yamila Juri
- Dr. Gonzalo Segovia
- Dr. Ricardo Greco
- Dr. Martín Uso
- Dr. Pablo Olaiz
Mgtr. María Trinidad Pérez Magnelli
External:
- Dr. Rodolfo Vigo (National University of the Litoral)
- Dr. Daniel Herrera (Argentine Catholic University
- Dr. Juan Cianciardo (U. Navarra)
- Dr. Pilar Zambrano (U. Navarra)
- Dr. Juan Bautista Echeverry (U. Austral)
- Dr. Luciano Laise (U Piura)
- Dr. Pedro Rivas (U. Austral)
- Dr. Marcelo Fernández Peralta (Catholic University of Cuyo)
- Dr. Hugo Ramírez García (Pan American University of Mexico)
- Dr. Joaquín García-Huidobro (U. de los Andes, Chile)
Those who are interested or wish to be part of the Ins.tuto
of Law of Practical Philosophy and Legal Humanism in some way or in a particular project, please contact us through: institute.filosofiapractica@um.edu.ar
LINES OF INVESTIGATION
Ongoing investigations:
- The rule of law and the republican system.
- Legal reasoning and the police story.
- Intelligibility of Law and its practical consequences.
PUBLICATIONS
The rehabilitation of practical philosophy will have the mission of reestablishing legal thinking from instances of dialogue and discussion that allow recovering the academic encounter between teachers and students within the framework of the university community, returning to praxis its meaning and purpose.
The Institute of Practical Philosophy and Legal Humanism wants to continue with this line of rehabilitation of Practical Philosophy and make a current contribution to the new challenges that legal-political praxis imposes in the 20thI century on the disoriented men of our days, and especially on the operators of the legal life of nations.
Among its particular objectives it aspires to:
- Promote rigorous research in the legal humanities.
- Conduct research sessions, discussion seminars and dissemination of practical philosophy topics, organize conferences and congresses, and any other activity that makes dialogue possible between scholars of that branch of philosophy.
- Publish books, essays, reviews, articles, notes on the main topics of practical philosophy, especially legal philosophy, for the dissemination and fixation of the ideas generated at the Institute.
- Institute email: institute.filosofiapractica@um.edu.ar
- Institute address: School de
Law and Social Sciences, Universidad de Mendoza, Central Campus.
Members:
Local:
- Dr. Tomás Catapano
- Dr. Patricio López
- Dr. Eliana de Rosa
- Lic. Mario Descotte
- Dr. Yamila Juri
- Dr. Gonzalo Segovia
- Dr. Ricardo Greco
- Dr. Martín Uso
- Dr. Pablo Olaiz
Mgtr. María Trinidad Pérez Magnelli
External:
- Dr. Rodolfo Vigo (National University of the Litoral)
- Dr. Daniel Herrera (Argentine Catholic University
- Dr. Juan Cianciardo (U. Navarra)
- Dr. Pilar Zambrano (U. Navarra)
- Dr. Juan Bautista Echeverry (U. Austral)
- Dr. Luciano Laise (U Piura)
- Dr. Pedro Rivas (U. Austral)
- Dr. Marcelo Fernández Peralta (Catholic University of Cuyo)
- Dr. Hugo Ramírez García (Pan American University of Mexico)
- Dr. Joaquín García-Huidobro (U. de los Andes, Chile)
Those who are interested or wish to be part of the Ins.tuto
of Law of Practical Philosophy and Legal Humanism in some way or in a particular project, please contact us through: institute.filosofiapractica@um.edu.ar
Ongoing investigations:
- The rule of law and the republican system.
- Legal reasoning and the police story.
- Intelligibility of Law and its practical consequences.
