La prosecución realista del conocer humano: Xavier Zubiri y Leonardo Polo

Mª Idoya Zorroza

doi:10.15581/013.1421

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Published: Feb 1, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15581/013.1421

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Zorroza, M. I. (2015). The Realistic Prosecution of the Human Knowledge: Xavier Zubiri and Leonardo Polo. Studia Poliana, (17), 15-40. https://doi.org/10.15581/013.1421

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The philosophical proposal of two of the most relevant Spanish thinkers of the XXth century (Xavier Zubiri and Leonardo Polo) shared a philosophical context and common problems (even if they suggest different methods), has a central key element: the defense of gnoseological realism. For these authors, this defense consists of two step: on one hand, they defend knowledge is actualizing what is real (neither an intentional tending towards reality, nor passivity, nor effective activity); on the other hand, that human knowledge, inasmuch as it is rational, is not purely intellectual, but neither is it a free ‘disentanglement’ motivated by reality (this could be a risk, but not the essence of knowledge); rather, it is a comprehension of reality. In this article we will compare both positions and show how, for both, the discursive or rational moment of human intellection is not an ‘unraveling’ supported or grounded in the moment of having reality actualized or having it intellectually, but rather a continuation restrained in actualized reality (“presence”).

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Reason, Knowledge, Reality, Realism, Understanding, Intentionality, Prosecution, Unification

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Num. 17 (2015): Leonardo Polo and Xavier Zubiri: Phenomenology, Realism, and Transcendental Philosophy (Francisco Güell and José Ignacio Murillo, eds. asocs.)

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