2020_11_25_FYL_noticia_seminario_alvira
"Modernity abandons Philosophy when it ceases to be love of wisdom."
The philosopher Rafael Alvira, Professor Emeritus of the University, teaches a seminar of department de Philosophy
The department seminars at Philosophy have resumed, after having to cancel the session scheduled in October. In order to respect the security and capacity measures, the November seminar was held at classroom 30 of Central Building, which was attended by 30 people. Eight followed the session online, through Zoom.
The seminar was position by Professor Rafael Alvira, who enraptured the audience with his discussion paper on faith as mediation between being/nothing and person/society. Professor Alvira spoke about love and unity, the center of the Neoplatonic Philosophy .
To face the classical problem of the one and the multiple, Alvira turned his exhibition on the axis of the concept of mediation. Just as Parmenides saw in truth the mediation that united being and thinking, Socrates succeeded in centering his philosophical exercise on love, mediation between being and non-being. Alvira wove his ideas by dialoguing one on one with thinkers of History, lamenting that Gadamer "didn't quite realize it," rejoicing before C. S. Lewis and concluding exhausted: "Hegel! You haven't heard anything!"
With the passion of a lover of truth and fine irony, Professor Alvira showed that Philosophy cannot be done without love, because "wisdom is a gift that is given to the one who loves". Despite the rigor of his thought, founded in the classical tradition, he made his audience laugh showing, with elegant coherence, that yes: Philosophy is neither study nor mastery, but -following Plato-, an intimate dialogue between friends who love each other.