El descubrimiento de Dios desde el hombre

Para considerar al hombre como vía hacia Dios, es preciso, desde el punto de vista de la filosofía, encontrar los trascendentales que le son propios. Dichos trascendentales no aparecen en el elenco clásico. Hay que añadir los trascendentales humanos a los descubiertos en la Edad Media, lo cual comporta, inevitablemente, algunas rectificaciones del planteamiento tradicional, sin las cuales los nuevos trascendentales no serían coherentes con la formulación antigua de esta temática. Con otras palabras, para que Dios sea accesible desde la perspectiva antropológica es menester formular lo que suelo llamar Antropología trascendental

La cibernética como lógica de la vida

Los precedentes de la cibernética se encuentran claramente en Aristóteles, quien distingue entre operaciones vitales —-praxis— y movimientos físicos —kinesis—, y habla de la información como modificación de un estado de equilibrio y de la retroalimentaáón como el modo de controlar la información. Desde ahí se descubre que en Aristóteles el modelo morfotélico es superior al modelo hilemórfic

Ética socrática y moral cristiana

This article compares certain aspects of Socratic ethics and of Christian morality. It stresses what Christian morality adds to Socratic ethics on the basis of Revelation, and surveys certain versions of Christian ethics which its author considers to be misguiding. In particular, the author notes defects in Luther’s, Kant’s and Fenelon’s ethical views, and in certain other views which stand in clear opposition to Christian ethics, such ad that of Nietzsche and other postmodern authors

Evidence-based medicine and values-based medicine : partners in clinical education as well as in clinical practice

The best clinical decisions are based on both evidence and values in what is known as the ‘twofeet principle’. Anecdotally, educationalists find teaching clinicians to become more evidence based is relatively simple in comparison to encouraging them to become more values based. One reason is likely to be the importance of values awareness. As valuesbased practice is premised on a mutual respect for the diversity of values, clinicians need to develop the skills to ascertain patient values and to get in touch with their own beliefs and preferences in order to understand those at play in any consultation. Only then can shared decision-making processes take place within a shared framework of values. In a research article published in BMC Medicine, AltamiranoBustamante and colleagues highlight difficulties that clinicians face in getting in touch with their own values. Despite finding that healthcare personnel’s core values were honesty and respect, autonomy was initially low ranked by participants. One significant aspect of this work is that this group has demonstrated that the extent to which clinicians value ‘autonomy’ and ‘openness to change’ can both be positively influenced by well designed education

Poblaciones y comunidades de algas bentónicas en la costa catalana

Las poblaciones de algas bentónicas forman comunidades que en unos lugares están poco diferenciadas y en otros constituyen comunidades definidas de un cierto valor indicativo. En este trabajo se comentan diversos perfiles de la costa catalana, confeccionadas según esquemas tomados sobre el terreno y auxiliados por fotografías submarinas.Los perfiles, tomados en varias localidades de la costa, revelan algunos horizontes y facies característicos del Mediterráneo occidental, lo que nos permite a modo de síntesis, tabular según su exposición al oleaje y a la luz, las facies más conspicuas y mejor caracterizadas.The populations of benthic algae form communities which are little differenciated in some spots while in others they constitute definite communities with some indicative value. Several profiles of the catalan coast are treated in this paper they have been drawn in accordance with outlines taken on the ground and with the aid of submarine pictures.The profiles, taken at several spots of the coast, reveal some horizonts and facieswhich are characteristic of the west Mediterranean, this allows us to tabulate the facies more evidents and better characterized according to their exposure to the swell and to the light