La sociedad rural en la España medieval

Tao Te Ching is to Taoism what the Bible is to Catholicism, or the Quran to Islam. It is not known for certain when it was written, although many different versions exist. There are even those who doubt that its author was Lao Tsé, venerated today in much of the East. Originally written as instruction for leaders, it is divided into short chapters where the characteristics of Tao are described. An example of balance, harmony, and communion with the natural course of events, "Tao" is a path of self-knowledge that draws the human being closer to wisdom and spiritual completeness. Readers of...

Buscando un sentido a su vida, un joven voluntario de la Peace Corps, tras viajar por medio mundo, llega a la India, a una pequeña isla del delta del Ganges. Allí, en una sencilla cabaña de bambú situada en la sagrada tierra de Mayapur, conoce a un santo, el maestro espiritual más eminente de toda la India, un maestro que le puede revelar todo aquello que quería saber…

Este Discurso de los métodos es, en efecto, un discurso de los métodos, y no de un Discurso del método, como el célebre de Descartes, porque la tesis principal que en él se defiende es que ni la palabra «método» se dice en un único sentido ni cada una de sus acepciones cobija una única clase de método. Cuando se aplica a la investigación filosófica, «método» significa primordialmente el conocimiento mismo que utiliza la filosofía. Pero la palabra mienta también, secundariamente, aquellos elementos de que constan los actos cognoscitivos propios de la filosofía y aun los...

María Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own perspective as an inhabitant of a number of different "worlds." Born in Argentina but living for a number of years in the United States, she sees herself as neither quite a U.S. citizen, nor quite an Argentine. An activist against the oppression of Latino/a people by the dominant U.S. culture, she is also an academic participating in the ...