The aim of this paper is to show how Kant, in constructing his systematic philosophy, makes both implicit and explicit use of his critical solution to the problem of perplexity, which derives from the mismatch between the demand for cognitive com-pleteness and the limitation of objective knowledge.

I mind by transcendental philosophy the pure inquiry of the ultimate realities also called transcendental realities . The whole inquiry is divided in two parts. The first one is dedicated to study the inconditional transcendentals, and the second one to study the conditional transcendentals. Both parts are preceded by one introduction, whose content constitutes the present paper.

Martin Heidegger is not yet another historic-philosophical point of reference in Polo’s thought, but the philosopher who has helped him determie his own historic revelance in a more clear fashion. Even though Polo has dialogued philosophically wiwth most of the well-known philosophers, his thought is more related to four big thinkers: Aristotle, Aquinas, Hegel, and Heidegger. As regards the latter, Polo did not only lend him special consideration to his works, as is clear from his ample commentaries to the Introduction (...) of Being and Time and the numerous alusions to his thought, but the existence of a positive similarities on the issues and approaches of both philosophers, also accompanied by deep disagreements, specially on their respective methods. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we deal with the similitudes , both on issues and approaches ; then we deal with the radical disagreements . We finish with a summary of the role played by Heidegger in Polo’s philosophy. (shrink)

This paper examines the congruence of the method of abandoning the mental limit regarding what it states, what it does, and what it is. The solid congruence that this method exhibits obliges us to exceed its mere formal use: and it helps us discover that congruence constitutes an intrinsic feature of real truth. This finding overcomes the atavistic mistrust that has accompanied philosophical research, making unnecesary the searching for signals or proofs to recognize truth.

Los puntos de partida y los recorridos de las filosofías medieval y moderna son a todas luces diferentes, pero en cambio las líneas ascendentes de ambos periodos filosóficos convergen hacia la persona como hacia lo más altamente real, sin que lleguen a poder asignarle de modo congruente el puesto que ella merece en el orden del ser y del saber. El obstáculo que impide llevar a término esas expectativas, aunque diversamente percibido por cada una, es común a ambas. En esta (...) investigación se señala la posible conciliación de esas filosofías en el conocimiento trascendental de la persona, mediante el método del abandono del límite mental, que convierte aquel obstáculo en camino. (shrink)

Polo is a good master, more preocupied in finding the truth than in being understood by the students. His knowledge is patient; his attention concentrated. He sustains the congruence between the level of the cognitive method that he employs and the topics he investigates. He stands out in three qualities: the audacity in his research, the coexistence with the truth, and the universal overture to wisdom.

The purpose of this paper is to make clear the basic set up of Leonardo Polo's philosophy. It can be summarized in the transcen-dental character of the act of human understanding and the detection of mental limit with the inmediate consequences which both have for the new posing of philo-sophizing.

The purpose of this article is to open a forum for Polian philosophers to debate with regard to philosophical problems and, in this way, banish the risk of turning the study of L. Polo's thought into a new form of scholasticism.