https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj Metaphysics, Ontology, Language en-us 2022-03-28 02:34:04 UTC 2022-04-03 17:36:22 UTC hello@padlet.com stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2116258156 2022-03-28 03:02:42 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2116258156 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2116288163 Date of Birth: July 18, 1942
Location of Birth: Cuba

Date of Death:  July 13, 2021
Location of Death: United States of America]]> 2022-03-28 03:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2116288163 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2116306402 Bachelor’s at Wheaton College

Master’s in Philosophy at the University of Chicago 

M.S.L. in Philosophy at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Ph.D. in Medieval Philosophy at the University of Toronto 

Faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1971

SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Chair in the departments of Philosophy and Comparative Literature]]> 2022-03-28 03:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2116306402 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2116323226 Metaphysics/Ontology

Philosophical Historiography

Philosophy of Language/Hermeneutics, Ethnicity/Race/Nationality

Medieval/Scholastic Philosophy

Hispanic/Latino/Latin-American Philosophy]]> 2022-03-28 03:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2116323226 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2120280890 2022-03-29 22:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2120280890 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2120283685 According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, "ontology is a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being."]]> 2022-03-29 22:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2120283685 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2120305137 2022-03-29 23:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2120305137 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2120323869 At the young age of 19, Jorge J.E. Garcia fled to the United States after the Cuban Revolution.]]> 2022-03-29 23:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2120323869 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126674927 Cuba Before Castro: A Century of Family Memoirs

With a Diamond in My Shoe: A Philosopher’s Search for Identity in America

Images of Thought: Philosophical Interpretations of Carlos Estévez's Art

How Can We Know What God Means? The Interpretation of Revelation

Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge]]> 2022-04-02 18:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126674927 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126675788 "A View from Somewhere: The Philosophical Hermeneutics of a Hispanic Philosopher: An Interview with Jorge J. E. Garcia, Samuel P. Capen, Chair and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosopher, SUNY-Buffalo"]]> 2022-04-02 18:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126675788 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126753513 Jorge J.E. Garcia touches on a few things in his interview, which will be discussed later with quotes. However, the main point being discussed is philosophy in comparison to thought, and that in relation to the Hispanic/Latino culture.]]> 2022-04-02 21:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126753513 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126754502 "Latino philosophers can gain much by looking outside. Of course, some might respond that we have been doing too much of that, and in the process have become intellectual slaves of others. And this is true to some extent. Even the work of those Latin-American philosophers who constantly harp about an authentic Latin-American philosophy are filled with views borrowed from Karl Marx, Levinas, Martin Heidegger, and other European philosophers. So, the right attitude has to be developed: A critical attitude toward ourselves and others. We certainly do not want to become, or continue to be, if that is actually what we have been and are, philosophical colonies of Europe, the United States, or any other place."]]> 2022-04-02 21:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126754502 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126757777 "Someone has to tell the emperor that he wears no clothes, and it is our job to do it, and also to tell the young men and women of this country, and elsewhere, how to do it. But certainly, we cannot expect to be loved for it." (talking about the role of a philosopher)

"After all, the primary job of the philosopher is to develop conceptual schemes that serve to understand ourselves and the world."

"Philosophy is the only discipline that tries to put all our learning together. It is also the only discipline that includes metaphysics, logic, epistemology, and ethics—to mention just four important subdisciplines of it."

"Meaningless rhetoric is always effective with those who are not used to thinking for themselves."

"Knowledge and understanding are always to be preferred to ignorance and misunderstanding. To choose blindness for the sake of some practical goal is nothing other than dogmatism and obscurantism."

"Because it is clear that I am a philosopher, and as such concerned with philosophical problems of every kind; a philosopher who happens to be Hispanic, and as such must begin to philosophize from the place in which I find myself; and a Hispanic philosopher in that part of my philosophizing—both in the questions and the answers to them—is rooted in my experience as a Hispanic."

"For in order to philosophize one must not just live a certain kind of life but even perhaps become a certain kind of person."]]> 2022-04-02 21:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126757777 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126758881 2022-04-02 21:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126758881 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126763593 2022-04-02 21:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126763593 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126776579 2022-04-02 22:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126776579 stellaw2 https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126780007 All in all, the interview was very insightful on how a Hispanic/Latino philosopher may think. Jorge J.E. Garcia brings up aspects as to what enables and disables an aspiring Hispanic/Latino philosopher. The primary aspect being culture. It's not only important to discover and discuss philosophical diversity outside of your culture, but maybe even more importantly, discover and discuss philosophical diversity inside of your culture as well. He ends the interview by saying that this should be applied to any philosopher in any culture, though.]]> 2022-04-02 22:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/stellaw2/ztqpfzmsio32b9wj/wish/2126780007