La naturaleza relacional del sentido de la vida en Nozick

  • Mirela Oliva University of St. Thomas, Estados Unidos
Palabras clave: Sentido de la vida, Relación, Valor, Ein Sof.

Resumen

Nozick afirma que la búsqueda del sentido de la vida implica una explicación relacional de lo que significa vivir. Defiendo su aserción y demuestro que el sentido de la vida, su significado,  no es un valor entre muchos, sino que representa lo interrelacionado  de todos los aspectos de la vida humana. El sentido de la vida es trascender nuestros límites hacia el valor. Este relato lleva a Nozick a una conclusión teísta: el sentido último de la vida puede ser solo algo que no tiene más sentido y es su sentido, es decir, el Ilimitado (Ein Sof en la tradición cabalista). El artículo comienza discutiendo la definición de sentido de Nozick como una dimensión relacional de la realidad. Subrayo la diferencia entre su enfoque y otros enfoques del sentido de la vida, y luego examino la relación entre sentido y valor. La segunda parte analiza los diversos modos del sentido de la vida a medida que emergen del uso de «sentido» en el lenguaje cotidiano. Termino con la discusión de la auto-relacionalidad del Ilimitado, que fundamenta la relacionalidad del sentido.

Biografía del autor/a

Mirela Oliva, University of St. Thomas, Estados Unidos

MIRELA OLIVA is Associate Professor and Rudman Chair of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, USA. PhD in Philosophy at the University of Freiburg i. Breisgau, Germany. Her main interests are in philosophy of religion and ethics. She has published Das innere Verbum in Gadamers Hermeneutik (Mohr Siebeck, 2009), edited the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 2014–2018, edited and translated Paul Ricoeur, Tradurre l'intraducibile. Sulla traduzione (Pontificia Università Urbaniana, 2008).

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Publicado
2019-12-31
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Oliva, M. 2019. La naturaleza relacional del sentido de la vida en Nozick. Disputatio. 8, 11 (dic. 2019), 469-494. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/10.5281/zenodo.3596157.
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