Institute of Philosophy

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Research group

Spanish

Political Philosophy

Academic Unit: Institute of Philosophy

Colombian Ministry of Science

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Call

894 GrupLAC

OECD

Area

Humanities

Subarea

Other humanities

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Strategic Focus

The research proposal is presented by members of the Research Group in Political Philosophy -GIFP- (COL0005083 - Scienti-minciencias) and is part of the work and projects that the group has previously developed around the problems of the normative foundation of democracy. It also involves the problem of representation and the dynamics of globalization, peacebuilding, and the dynamics of war in the contemporary international system, as well as general issues of distributive justice, global justice, and transitional justice.

Research Lines and/or Areas

Political philosophy.
War, law, peace, and world order.
Critical theory.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Group Coordinator

Francisco Cortés Rodas PhD

Postdoc in Philosophy.

Frankfurt University (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe), Germany.

Coordinator's Email

francisco.cortes@udea.edu.co

Scientific Cooperation

Collaborative Relationships

Institute of Philosophy of the Wolfgang Goethe-Frankfurt am Main University, Germany.
Institute of Philosophy of the Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Department of Political Science of the University of Giessen, Germany.

Department of Philosophy and Society, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Center for Philosophical Studies of the Pontifical Catholic Universidad de Peru, Peru.
Department of Philosophy of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, Mexico.

Highlighted Projects

Approaches from the philosophy of history to the modern concepts of Progress and Revolution in a case study: The first government of Alfonso López Pumarejo (Colombia 1934-1938) -2014.
Community and Violence: Tensions of Citizenship in the Consumer Society.
Social and subjective conditions of possibility of democracy.
Dispossession. Elements for a theory of injustice from Marx.

Key Research Findings

Lo que el hombre hace, o puede y debe hacer, de sí mismo. Antropología pragmática y filosofía moral en Kant (What man does or can and must do of himself. Pragmatic anthropology and moral philosophy in Kant) ISSN 0121-3628.
Martha Nussbaum: La relación entre literatura y filosofía desde una perspectiva aristotélica (the relationship between literature and philosophy from an Aristotelian perspective) ISSN0124-7816
Avatares de la conciencia moral. Imputación, culpa y responsabilidad (Avatars of the moral conscience. Imputation, guilt, and responsibility) ISSN-0124-6127
Ensayo y autonomía en América Latina. El papel del modernismo hispanoamericano en el pensamiento crítico de la región (Trial and error in Latin America. The role of Hispanic American modernism in critical thinking in the region) ISSN-1575-2275