Reason and experience: contributions to a broadening of epistemological diversity

Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso 17:231-250 (2021)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The philosophical transformation carried out Xavier Zubiri, especially in his mature work: Sentient intelligence allows to rethink the bases of rationality in structural unity with the senses, allowing a plurality of ways of accessing reality on its foundation, and surpass, in that way, the monological rationality promoted by positivism and pragmatism. To this end, we move through the different landmarks of Zubiri’s work: first, the primordial apprehension of reality from its multiple sentient openings; then, we stop at the constitution of meaning by logos emphasizing how culture prioritize one type of sense over the rest, forging a type of openness to reality and determining a horizon of meaning for it; later, we inquire into how reason accesses the foundation of the real, this allows us to show how the different rationalities settle their options for meaning. From here we contrast with religious rationality founded on historical-scientific criterion, and a strictly religious one, which, ultimately, allow us to finish systematizing and giving a unity of meaning to the previews proposals that were made. Finally, all this enables us to explore the consequences for a sociology of knowledge, and to think about the conditions of intercultural dialogue, and, subsequently, the scenarios of and interlogical construction.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,880

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Analytics

Added to PP
2021-09-14

Downloads
14 (#1,292,856)

6 months
4 (#1,288,968)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Fernando Ramírez
Pontifica Universidad Javeriana

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Una epistemología del sur: la reinvención del conocimiento y la emancipación social.Boaventura de Sousa Santos - 2009 - Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO). Edited by Gandarilla Salgado & José Guadalupe.

Add more references