Revista Ethika+

Ethics of masculinity. A dialogue between Rita Segato and Jacques Lacan

José Manuel Neri — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This essay proposes an ethics of masculinity based on the anthropological theory of Rita Segato and the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. Based on an analysis of sexual violence, it explains how patriarchy produces a subject who must acquire masculinity through the subjugation of feminine or feminized subjects. It then delves into the category of sexual difference to argue that the patriarchal masculine subject possesses phallic jouissance. His desire is constituted by an insatiable lack that must be covered by narcissistic displays of domination and power. Finally, the essay proposes an ethics of masculinity in which it may be possible to transmute the desire for power hinged on new social forms of inhabiting affectivity, sensitivity and vulnerability.

Psychological diagnosis: clinical exercise framed within theoretical-technical and professional-ethical aspects

Margarita Loubat, Makarena Moris — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The text reflects on the attitudes and values inherent in the clinical act known as "psychological diagnosis" considering its practical application is a declared competence in the graduation profile of most psychology programs offered by Chilean universities. A general overview of clinical, theoretical, and relational technical aspects is presented, which have historically promoted, along with other factors, the rights of the patient. The uniqueness of the psychologist is acknowledged, as their training and subjectivity influence the diagnostic process. Finally, the current technical-administrative regulations are analyzed in relation to ethical considerations.

Can religion be compatible with J. S. Mill’s utilitarian doctrine?

Oscar Morales — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article critically analyzes the compatibility between religion and J. S. Mill's utilitarianism. First, it considers biographical and philosophical aspects that contrasts Mill's skepticism with his religious interest. Next, it discusses the theological and naturalistic arguments that led him to reject religion while advocating for a secular alternative. Finally, the paper examines the connections between utilitarianism and Christian ethics. Finally, it addresses Mill's liberal perspective and his defense of religious freedom as a fundamental element for general happiness.

Face to face with the word: poetry as a metaphor for the relationship between human beings and language

Raimundo López — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article argues that 'literal' language is the product of a metaphorical operation and that poetry is a privileged linguistic endeavor for revealing this relationship. Through a review of language acquisition, it support the idea of the subject as a fiction of unity that eludes words and the experience of not being able to fully say. Language is revealed as a metaphor that moves and reveal something of the vital background –underpinned by lack and desire– of the word, while poetry allows us to glimpse what is only vaguely and uncertainly presented in everyday words.

School, ethics and morals in telesecondary education students

Amada Inocencia Tapia-Cielo, Lorena Martínez-Zavala — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article analyzes how schools contribute to shaping ethical and moral behaviors in telesecondary students in Mexico. The analysis is based on qualitative research using the hermeneutic method and documentary research, as well as the author's teaching experience as a telesecundaria teacher. The results show that the New Mexican School promotes students' self-steem through the subject of Civic and Ethical Education. This involves curricular development, teacher modeling, and a rethinking of the assessment of learning generated in the subject.

Plant Intelligence?

Claudia Donoso — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper, based on discoveries in plant neurophysiology and their connection to Humberto Maturana's concept of autopoiesis, proposes an interpretation of plants as sensitive and intelligent living beings, despite lacking a brain or central nervous system. Specifically, it proposes understanding intelligence as a quality distributed in varying degrees throughout the organization of living organisms, whose function is none other than to solve problems to maintain coherence with the environment.

Inscriptions of Violence and Resistance

Valeria Zúñiga — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The article explores the configuration of violence and bodily resistance practices in Mariana Enríquez's short story “Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego” (2016). Drawing on a Lacanian perspective on the body, along with reflections on body and power from authors such as Michel Foucault (1979), Rita Segato (2016) and Slavoj Žižek (2009), the analysis examines how power shapes the female body within the imaginary, symbolic, and real registers. Consequently, two configurations of the female body are distinguished: one shaped by patriarchal violence and the other constructed by women in resistance.

Sartre and the limits of antropological transhumanism

Karla Encalada-Falconi — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Transhumanism argues that, through human technoscientific transformations, it will be possible, not only to eliminate human flaws and negative sensations, but also to increase human experience and achieve immortality. Jean Paul Sartre, instead, argues that the human being, as a being for-itself, possesses an unknowable dimension that they can only exist. From the concept of unknowable consciousness, the body for-itself and Sartre’s distinction between alive and death bodies, I argue that transhumanist transformations do not eliminate human lack or negativity, but instead, decrease human experiences and promote the immortalization of a none alive being.

Voces del sentido desde la espesura del yo by Cristóbal Holzapfel

Íñigo Álvarez — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Book review of “Voces del sentido desde la espesura del yo“ by Cristóbal Holzapfel

Review of 'The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence' by Luciano Floridi

Raul Fernando Lopez — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Book review of ‘La ética de la inteligencia artificial’ by Luciano Floridi.

Editorial

Luca De Vittorio — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Editorial issue 11