Res publica: revista de filosofía política Nº19 (2008)

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Maquiavelo en Saavedra Fajardo (Las sombras de la virtud)
(2015-09-23) Hermosa Andújar, Antonio
Unintentionally, Saavedra develops his political doctrine, even from the election of the political subject itself, as opposed to the guidelines stated by Machiavelli. The immanent presence of ethics and religion as active parts of the above mentioned doctrine indicates so. However, in describing the behaviour the Spanish monarch should pursue in a political sphere, Saavedra discovers and ends up owning that spheres considered complementary at first, have become antagonistic. And by accepting how politics sometimes survive only by infringing the dictates of ethics, he ends up becoming as well another member of Machiavelli's large critical wake turned loyal disciples at the end.
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Arbitrismo y mercantilismo en la españa de Saavedra Fajardo
(2015-09-23) Ujaldón Benítez, Enrique
In this article I will try to analyze if it is possible to reinterpret the work of part of the arbitrists as a defence of the cities, because the expenses of imperial policy were destroying their wealth and political independence. Furthermore, I will argue that the «empresas políticas» devoted to economic issues must be interpreted from a mercantilist point of view.
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La ley natural en las empresas políticas de Saavebra Fajardo
(2015-09-23) Ayala, Jorge M.
The author wishes to expound the dependence that Saavedra's political theory -as treatise for the education of the prince- still has from philosophical Aristotelism, and not just from his anthropology but also from the issue of virtues. However, even more decisive -and more operative- than this philosophical cue appears the theory of the natural law, the recognition key for the catholic dimension of his thinking.
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Saavedra fajardo, en los multiples espejos d ela política barroca.
(2015-09-23) González García, José M.
This essay, inspired by Walter Benjamin's reflections on the spirit of German baroque drama, is centred on the two big metaphors of human life destined to produce an idea of «identity»: theatre and mirror. All of Saavedra Fajardo's work can be catalogued as producing «concepts for the eyes». The paradox of the Baroque period resides in that the identity-producing media make it possible due to the proliferation of images it generates.
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Enyre la teoría y la practica de las razones de estado catolica: las últimas cortes de Felipe II
(2015-09-23) Centenero de Arce, Domingo
One of Saavedra Fajardo's biggest worries was the impoverishment of Castile due to extremes, to sustaining far-away provinces such as Flanders. In this article, the author demonstrates that the questioning of Spain's foreign policy was already existent in the last courts of Castile, where mostly the group of city solicitors «that were unwell» supported a policy that would abandon or cancel war.
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El orden de la guerra en Saavedra Fajardo
(2015-09-23) Egío García, Víctor Manuel
The present article examines the considerations about war in Saavedra Fajardo's thinking, marked in the context contemporary to him that included both the Flanders' and the Thirty-Year's Wars. These are organised around three different axes: the law of those who make war (military discipline), ius in bello (law of war), ius ad bellum (just war). The just cause, inseparably linked to Spain's intended job as guarantor of European peace, arbitrator and police at once, as well as the rumour of a resigned universal control, manifest the vitality of the Spanish imperial sovereignty project in the Fajardian thinking. Completing the image of a tacitistic Saavedra with this of an imperial Saavedra is fundamental to globally understand his political thinking in the context of transit that is his own.
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Francisco Ayala y Enrique Tierno Galvan, kectoras de Saavedra
(2015-09-23) Novella Suárez, J. B.
The author sets out the readings that Francisco Ayala and Enrique Tierno Galván did of Saavedra Fajardo's work. He discovers a common idea: same diagnosis on the role of Counter-Reformation in Spain. The different issues both of them focused on are also displayed: as Francisco Ayala wonders about Saavedra Fajardo's significance and topicality, Tierno Galván read the baroque author from a 17th-century political implicitness.
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Pensar la monarquia, pensar las catedrales: Dos fiscales del orbe indiano; Juan de Solorzano y Juan de Palafox
(2015-09-23) Mazín, Oscar
This article enquires about the procedures used in order to build political spheres in the Spanish-American monarchy, being that they were two thousand leagues away from the Spanish monarch. The author establishes a connection between the regular-secular clergy confrontation in New Spain and some resorts of power within the Consejo de Indias [Council of the Indies].
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La sombra del imperio
(2015-09-23) Price, Rachel
This work offers a reflection on the value of image during the Baroque, through the ways in which distance is managed in relation to various objects. The author focuses on both Hernando de Soto and Saavedra Fajardo's works to elucidate the role of representation in matters such as the copperand- silver alloy coin or the government of the Indies.
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Nacimiento y despipliegue del estado a partir del modelo de Wesfalia
(2015-09-23) Villacañas de Castro, Luis S.
This article tackles the birth of modern State after the end of the Thirty Years' War, following Schmitt and Foucault's political thinking. Specifically, the theory of large spaces, but mostly the theory of governmentality by the French philosopher, with its special attention to biopower and the police, allows us to shed light on the main characteristics of the form State that emerged after Westphalia.
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Una monarquía sin razón....de estado: Los escritos tardíos de Jean Boucher
(2015-09-23) Ruiz Ibáñez, José Javier
In this work, the author presents an analysis of the writings of the French catholic theorist, defender of the alliance between the Spanish monarchy and the French monarchy, Jean Boucher, written in his years of exile in Flanders. The author shows as well that Boucher belonged to a time stratus characteristic of the old medieval theory of the king as sword at the disposal of the Church, exclusively legitimated by the church concession of his mission and directly -not indirectly- subjected to the spiritual power. In this way, the survival of this medieval understanding of the two swords until the beginning of modernity can be understood.
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El final de la edad media
(2015-09-23) Villacañas Berlanga, José Luís
This essay wishes to explain the breakdown of Spanish normative conscience, settled in a mimetic use of history, recognised as magistra vitae, which offers the accredited behavioural models for the ruler at the same time that it deconstructs them from a precise conscience of their non-adaptation to the present. In this sense, Saavedra experiences in his time and in the political order the same methodical doubt Descartes experienced in the field of sciences. Nonetheless, his scepticism serves an eventual fideism that prevents him from stepping into Hobbes' constructivism and therefore commit to a modern model of sovereignty.
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La teoría del derecho natural y Saavedra Fajardo
(2015-09-23) Rodríguez, Iván García
The article defends that Saavedra, given his scepticism, his anthropological pessimism and his voluntarism, could have been an exponent of modern natural law if it had not been for his strong catholic beliefs he was not ready to relinquish. Otherwise his thinking was cleanly leading him to political principles very similar to those of protestant authors, which gave rise to natural law.
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LA RELEVANCIA DE LA DISIMULACION EN SAAVEDRA FAJARDO
(2015-09-23) Grande Yañez, Miguel
In this article, deceit and concealment, the instruments of good and bad reason of State, are distinguished. Saavedra Fajardo doesn't go far from scholastic morals when he tolerates concealment and rejects deceit. Concealment appears linked to the Prince's operative care and to a humble or limited power. Hence fore, concealment can be finally defined as a humble or careful deceit.
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CONCIENCIA LIBRE Y "LEY NATURAL" EN EL CALVINISMO Y MOLINISMO
(2015-09-23) Martínez Valle, Carlos
The author states that Molina's and the Jesuits' catholic theory -focused on a particular circumstancialism and legal casuistry- was better prepared to defend the free conscience and autonomy of human beings than the law's rigorism characteristic of Calvinists, who thought free conscience could easily lead to fanaticism, something that the Jesuit flexibility did not allow. However, Jesuit thinking was not therefore less exposed to the final lack of coherence. This detail prevented free conscience in them and in the Spanish catholic thinking from evolving into its modern shape, that of freedom of conscience.
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BALTASAR ALAMOS BARRIENTOS EN LA (PRE) MODERNIDAD TACITISTA
(2015-09-23) Sauquillo, Julián
This text intends to provide evidence that the political theory of Baltasar Alamos Barriento's -Antonio Pérez' thinking head- cannot be framed in modernity but that it is obviously pre-modern. Contemporary Spanish masters of political thought -Maravall, Tierno Galván, Murillo Ferrol- have discerned in Alamos Barrientos the existence of the inductive method -instead of an explicit development of casuistry- in his writings supposedly influenced by Francis Bacon. By applying the Weberian comparative method, he makes it obvious that authors preceding Alamos, such as the Italian Donato Giannotti, behold a greater trust in modernity rather than in the governor's baroque virtue, still a manifestation of pre-modern charisma as a personal guaranty of good government.
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El silencio y la palabra: secretarios, letrados y consejeros entre humanismo y renacimiento
(2015-09-23) Scandellari, Simonetta
The author examines the relationship between the Prince and his Secretaries through the work of Italian humanistic writers that lived in the courts between 15th-16th centuries
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Transilvania en el horizonte pólitico-ideologico de Saavedra Fajardo
(2015-09-23) Monostori, Tibor
In this article, the author tracks Saavedra Fajardo's diplomatic activity within the Thirty Years' War context together with his positions regarding the relationships of various European States with Protestant Powers or the Ottoman Empire.
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DIOGENES EL CINICO EN LA REPUBLICA LITERARIA
(2015-09-23) García López, Jorge
This essay wishes to study the break of 16th-century Humanism as it occurs in Saavedra's work and its consequence -the evaluation of experience, of what is immediate, historical, and personal. In this context, the appropriation of cynical experience attains a new meaning beyond neo-stoic models and, of course, in contraposition to the control of Spanish neo-scholastics.
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PRESENTACION
(2015-09-23) Villacañas Berlanga, José Luís; Rivera García, Antonio
(...)Un proyecto, un grupo de investigación, una biblioteca digital, una colección bibliográfica sobre pensamiento político, todas ellas iniciativas surgidas con el nombre del polígrafo español, obligaban a organizar un congreso sobre la obra de Saavedra Fajardo. A este deber se entregó el II Congreso Internacional de Pensamiento Político Hispánico. El primero, también editado en nuestra revista de filosofía política Res Publica, se dedicó al estudio del pensamiento y las prácticas políticas de la Edad Media. En realidad, un hilo conductor une estas dos intervenciones, hasta el punto de que se puede decir que Saavedra Fajardo significa el final de la larga Edad Media hispana. Y lo hace por muchos motivos, y no sólo objetivos (...)