Abstract

ROSALES MEANA, Diego I.. Metaphysics of violence and peace. Augustinian analysis of a definition of Paul Gilbert. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2017, n.53, pp.273-301. ISSN 0188-6649.

In this paper I shall approach to the problem of politic violence and peace from a metaphysical paradigm. I will discuss the question based on a definition of violence given by Paul Gilbert and its augustinian postulates. This definition will be tested on three levels. On the first place I describe what does it mean to talk about violence in metaphysics conceived as "first philosophy". On the second place I try to recall the phenomenology of free will that Augustine establishes mainly in his book De libero arbitrio. Finally, I shall analyze political freedom and its substitution by the notion of "legality". Therefore, it will be shown how a metaphysical perspective is useful in order to understand violence as a renouncement of the political, as the unilateral affirmation of individual liberty and, thus, as the negation of this precise liberty.

Keywords : autonomy; commitment; liberty; patience; power.

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