(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Humanidades, 2023-07-19) Alonso, Marcos
This paper discusses a problem of great actuality in contemporary philosophy: the understanding of animal being and its relationship with human being. It analyses, specifically, the way in which this problem is addressed by the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset, one of the first authors who deals with this issue as a specific and recurring theme in the context of his own thought. I show how Ortega arrives to this problem, which intellectual influences are behind his approach to the cluster of difficulties around the animal, and what place does this issue have in the context of Ortega’s general philosophical proposal. As a conclusion, I suggest that Ortega’s thought —as it is the case with many of the most relevant authors of the 20th Century— is marked by his considerations on animals; and that his ideas could still be fruitful when studying important problems concerning thestatus and the significance of the animal condition.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Humanidades, 2023-07-19) Luna Bravo, José Luis
The experience of playing is not unknown to anyone of us. As children we have all entered the world opened by phantasy and toys. This paper makes explicit —from a phenomenological perspective— how this particular mixture of perception and phantasy takes place. To avoid confusing this experience with a hallucination or a mere simulation, I claim that playing can be analysed as a particular modality of perceptual phantasy in the “as if” mode. This modality,based on the neutralisation of a perceptual apprehension, enables the opening of the world of phantasy that is deployed in playing. Accordingly, this paper isdivided in 3 parts: First, I present a general description of phantasy consciousness; then, I propose an analysis of perceptual phantasy in the experience of theatre; third, I describe the specificity of this modality of phantasy consciousness —called perceptual phantasy— in the intentional structure proper of children’s playing.
