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The aim of the article is: to analyze her discourse about women in the Boletín de la Escuela Moderna. To do this, the issues published between 1901 and 1909 are examined. These are kept at the Fundación Ferrer i Guàrdia and at the Historical Archive of Barcelona (Spain). The documentary analysis reveals that the rationalist discourse includes two spheres: public and private. Within the private space, women’s freedom is conditioned by marriage and maternity. Rationalism seeks female emancipation through the free union between the sexes. Likewise, it is committed to a conscious, voluntary maternity and protected by public powers. In the public sphere, rationalist education and salaried work are key to the social liberation of women. However, the discourse proves ineffective in enabling women to break free from their biological and social destiny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Through access to the Gabriel García Márquez correspondence between 1961 and 1971, it is now possible an understanding of what the author named the destiny of his "epistolary literature": that of the demythologization of his work and his lifetime. Far from being dissappointing, the end result is an adjacent version of myths and stories told over the decades, a version in the double genre of testimony and nonfiction. Three myths are intended to be dispelled: that of the pauperized writer, One Hundred Years of Solitude as a spontaneous generation work and the self-proclaimed anti-intelectualism of the author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Latin America has been usually portrayed as an ill geographical space, with no possibility of healing in order to change its current destiny. It is also frequent to think about the crises and setbacks that accompany its history. This essay studies interventions of Latin American intellectuals and publicists who, between the end of the 19th century and the 1920s, resorted to the image of disease --and other associated medical notions-- to explain the tragic destinies of the region and thus defined a repertoire of ideas that seem to have endured. The paper focuses on two moments because of their importance in the emergence of repertoires of ideas, images and metaphors. On the one hand, the 1898 war between Spain and the United States, and European imperialism as a backdrop; on the other, the Great War and its effects, overlapping with the setting of the Latin-American centennials (1910-24), the Mexican Revolution (1910) and the Reforma Universitaria (University Reform, 1918), which began in Argentina but created a university movement in other Latin American countries. Therefore, as a general argument, theis paper argues that it is feasible to organize a body of texts produced in different Latin American countries between the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th that has formed an interpretative repertoire, which operates as a matrix to characterize the Latin American region and associate its destiny to notions such as disease, condemnation, impossibility and failure. Particularly, the paper highlights how references to illnesses in literal and metaphorical senses show the overlap between notions such as disease-conquest-colonization and diseaseimperialism-European decadence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

“Univocity and Intuitive Science in Spinoza”. This paper seeks to investigate the Spinozist theory of knowledge. The starting point of my argument is a reading hypothesis that connects the univocity of the real with intuitive science. The aim is to demonstrate that the cognoscitive access provided by the third genre of knowledge is the only means to attain knowledge of the totality of Nature. Accordingly, the paper shows, on the one side, that both imagination and reason provide us only with incomplete and biased knowledge of the real. On the other side, it shows that—notwithstanding their shortfalls—these cognoscitive perspectives are authentic and true, and are present in the third genre of knowledge. Finally, the paper shows the coherence of the Spinozist system and its proposal of intuitive science—knowledge of the unity underlying all perspectives—as the human ethical destiny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a review of the book "The Philosophy of Redemption" by Phillip Mainländer, which addresses topics such as cognitive faculty, physics, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and metaphysics. Mainländer offers an immanent philosophy that seeks to understand ecological destruction and the immobility of countries in the face of scientific evidence. It highlights the importance of will as the authentic thing-in-itself in the immanent world and its focus on absolute death as an inevitable and desired destiny. The proximity of Mainländer's thinking to discoveries in evolutionary biology and the current ecological crisis is mentioned, and the need for an ontological analysis of our current situation is raised, assuming that ecodestruction is a form of self-destruction. [Extracted from the article]

The "feeling of destiny" has marked history. However, the historiography of emotions has not devoted enough attention to it. In classical times it was considered for decision making. Later we find rich systematic reflections: Machiavelli, Montaigne, Smith, Tolstoy, Weber, Geertz, Adorno... After studying these testimonies, we analyze the case of Gandhi and his "inner voice". Revitalizing the discussion about the feeling of destiny contributes to understanding phenomena such as populism. It is not possible to do politics only with reasons: emotions must be taken into account; among them, the enthusiasm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents the results of an intertextual study comparing the text of Benedict XVI’s Spe salvi with earlier texts published by him as Joseph Ratzinger. The comparison shows that, decades before publishing Spe salvi, our author had already enunciated certain fundamental theses regarding worldly utopias and freedom’s role in the diversification of human final destinies. On the other hand, in the encyclical he does not develop his speculation on the nature of the human soul, as he does in earlier works. The presence of specific themes in Spe salvi and the absence of others may be indicative of the long-term concerns of Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, as well as the varying dogmatic weight he attributes to his own eschatological conceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims at showing that knowledge of the cultural milieu – folk tales – and of ancient rhetoric – the chreiai – is necessary in order not to misinterpret the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. But it is also decisive to proceed with narrative analysis, in other words to identify the plots at work, to see also how the characters are gradually built, to determine how the different themes are organized – the social question of poverty and wealth, the reversal of destinies, the afterlife, resurrection, conversion – and which one rules the others. The conditions of an accurate hermeneutic being respected, it is then possible to see what the parable tells us of the salvation we can hope for. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even though the so called fornaldarsogur ('sagas of the ancient times') appeared in Christian Scandinavia during the 12th and 13th centuries, the fact is that the motifs and topics of the ancient Scandinavian myths and legends still play a major role in those literary works. In particular, the fate and the sword are given a prominent place in the Volsunga saga, especially with reference to the Volsungs' deeds and misfortunes. Hence, the aim of this paper is to elucidate to what extent the tale establishes a symbolic relationship between that weapon and the future of two of its main characters: Sigurðr and Brynhildr. After analysing how destiny works in the story, on the one hand, and what the familiar meaning of the Volsung sword is, on the other hand, it will be possible to conclude that the weapon symbolises the tragic and violent separation of the couple in the saga. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay succinctly explores the relationship between the concept of individuality and Ginés de Pasamonte, one of the galley slaves freed by Don Quixote in chapter XXII of the first part of Cervantes' work. Special emphasis is placed on the influences that the author of the work took from the Spanish picaresque of the sixteenth century, in particular, the idea that the destiny of each individual is determined by the acts for which each one is personally responsible. and direct, not so much because of the lineage or because of the socioeconomic situation of the family to which each person belongs. Ginés de Pasamonte fully exemplifies this ideal, since he not only recognizes that his forced situation in a galley is a direct result of his past actions; but he takes into his hands, in a way that seems to escape even the narrator of the story, his freedom and future. Because of this, the same narrator loses track of Ginés, who goes on to live adventures that will be his own, his encounters with Don Quixote and Sancho being another episode of his life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thesis 1 In the rectoral writings, central ideas of analytics reappear, with another language and in another semantic space. The resolved Dasein, identified with the «destiny of the people», represents the transition from the «proper» existence to an improper policy. Thesis 2. The idea of being in the world replaces the suspended world of phenomenology and posits it as constitutive of human reality; at the same time, it rest validity to the common world, so that it preserves the suspension of a primary dimension of existence: that of being with others in a shared space. Thesis 3. The suspension / invalidation of politics, and its replacement by the "historicity of history" represents a kind of sublimated politics, that is, a derivative of the phenomenological method of idealities. The «great foolishness» (grosse Dummheit) would be the attempt to give content to the idea of «historicity»; and the "spiritual leadership" (geistige Führerschaft), the Heideggerian version of the Platonic government of the philosophers. Thesis 4. In its «inner truth», National Socialism is the beginning of a «new beginning», the promise of a counter movement of decadence; it requires traversing "the zero meridian of total nihilism", preparatory to the advent of a post-Christian technical world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze the ways in which fate appears in Norse Medieval cultures. Special attention will be paid to Volsunga saga and its context of production. We will see that the social dynamics of Iceland and Norway during the 13th century influence the representation of fate and its effects on the individual. The necessity of reciprocity was crucial for the maintenance of a society based on personal relationships and systems of friendship. Hence, greed is one of the principal transgressive elements condemned in the saga. In this narrative, a cursed treasure attracts the character´s greed and motivates them to transgress other fundamental norms. This doom also sets an ominous fate that casts doubt on the freedom an individual might have in a conditioned world. These determinants are also imposed by other external forces that are compared to destiny. Thus, we will demonstrate that honor and the obligations imposed within the kinship structure are represented with the same inexorability as destiny and the same destructiveness as greed. Excessive honor and greed have the capacity to drag individuals into a fateful future that will engulf both the complicit and the innocent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To speak of human mobility is to speak of a fact that can be addressed from two points of view: the causes--or situations that motivate the departure from one's own territory; and the consequences--the situations that migrants encounter in the places of destination. While some individuals understand such mobility as a resource for solving problems in the places of origin, others perceive it as a threat and a social burden that shakes cultural and social relationships. The books of the Bible describe such situations intertwined with salvation history, in which God makes himself present. In some parts, these books describe the circumstances that motivated entire populations to go out in search of better lands; and in others, they describe how were these people received, and the challenges they faced in building a new story in the places where they arrived. The Bible assigns an important position to the migrant, either to guide the way in which she or he should be received, or to tell migrants what to do when arriving in a foreign place; this, because the people of Israel will consider themselves as foreigners as long as they can return to God's promised land. Thus, begins the so-called historical creed in the book of Deuteronomy: "My father was a wandering Aramean" (Dt 26:5). The Old Testament offers many stories of characters who have left their homeland, seeking for a better destiny, while God guarantees them protection as migrants. In the New Testament, Jesus presents himself as a migrant, relates to strangers in a foreign land, and proposes--to those who want to follow him--an itinerant uprooting movement. These are the topics that we will address in the following pages, in an attempt to understand migration from the very heart of the Scriptures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Amoxtli Mictlan (Codex Laud) is part of the Mexican amoxtin of wisdom (the so- called Borgia Group). It was painted on leather, probably in the area of the Tehuacán Valley. It is one of the few remaining "codices" from the pre-Quauhtemic era and it has an order based on the tonalpohualli and a theme of death and destinies. It presents one of the most perfect handlings of line and color. On plate 44, in the lower right frame, it contains an image of "tonacayo" ("our flesh") transiting to death: it is a clear "body image" (Schilder, 1950) of the ancient Mesoamerican world. As in any conception, the point of view creates the image, and here, in an apparent paradox, human carnality is expressed through a red and white semi-discarnate human being on a black background with a white frame, looking straight ahead, as if sitting on the air and with arms extended back and forth; the left arm goes with the corpse. Carnality and various ethereal entities that emerge from it in a serpentine form are represented in the drawing. An offering on the ground can be seen at the left bottom. At the bottom, on a white background with a red rectangular border, three signs of the count of the days are displayed, from eagle to Ollin (movement). The analysis reviews the meaning of this lower right frame of plate 44 from an operational proposal that considers the five schools of codicological studies and integrates the discursive-semiotic and rhetorical analysis proposed from Nuestra América by Julieta Haidar (1998) while considering the semiotics of culture (Lotman, 1996), the visual rhetoric of the Groupe mu from Belgium and the visual semiotic of Fontanille (2008) and Violi (2003). The analysis is complemented with the historical and ethnographic information to reconstruct the Mesoamerican point of view of carnality and the subtle entities that accompany it and come off in death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Christ deserves a central place in Christian life and doctrine. The purpose of this text is to unpack the different dimensions of this centrality in order to provide an adequate framework for understanding it. First, Christ’s place in God’s plan for creation is considered. Then the role of Christ in the journey of creation towards its ultimate destiny is analysed. Finally, attention is directed to the personal and existential dimensions of this centrality: the fundamental aspects of Christ’s presence in the life of the faithful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]