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Israel Centeno No se nace para ser concepto. Se nace para ser. Y el ser humano no es un constructo, como pretendió la posmodernidad. No se reduce a discurso, a relato, a biología, a cultura, a clase ni a historia. El ser humano es. Es antes de cualquier narrativa. Antes de aprender, es. Antes de…
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Israel Centeno Christian Anthropology, Kenosis, and Being Christian faith does not begin with a dualistic conception of the human being. St. Paul does not speak of the soul as a separable entity from the body, nor of a “spirit” that can exist apart from the concrete, embodied reality of the person. For him, as for…
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Israel Centeno “No hay rasgo alguno de la realidad humana que no haya sido asumido por Cristo, salvo el pecado. Así, la esperanza cristiana es la certeza de que el amor de Dios es más fuerte que cualquier mal, y que la victoria de Cristo es definitiva, aunque todavía no plenamente manifestada” (cf. Catecismo, nn.…
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israel Centeno Thomas Aquinas understood that at the foundation of all reality lies not an object, nor even energy, but an act: the act of being. What exists does so because it actualizes its existence, because it participates in being. But nothing we see, touch, or think of exists by itself. Everything around us is…
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Israel Centeno Playing Clever: The Enduring Intelligence of Thomism — A brief defense of metaphysical clarity in the age of confusion In an age dazzled by novelty and exhausted by contradiction, embracing Thomism is not a retreat to medieval nostalgia. It is, rather, the most intellectually strategic move one can make. To be a Thomist…
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A critique of redemptive dialectics and the progressive myth of history by Israel Centeno “History has no meaning. It has memory.” — Hannah Arendt Yale philosopher Jacob McNulty has recently proposed a new political reading of Hegel that discomforts both Marxists and liberals. His proposition: to recover a tougher, more grounded Hegel—one who cannot be…
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From the series: Modern and Fatigued Prometheuses Israel Centeno Or Truths That Contradict Themselves “Science, if pursued earnestly, leads to God.”—Edith Stein “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”—Albert Einstein I. Introduction: The Prometheus of Modern Thought Roger Penrose is one of the last giants of modern science. A brilliant…
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Israel Centeno Cosmic-Type Complex An Essay on Lucifer’s Rebellion and the Oedipal Mythology of the Modern Soul “If there is a God, how could I bear not to be Him?” —Friedrich Nietzsche I. The Eternal Suspicion There is a suspicion that runs through all myths, all religions, and all systems of thought: Man is not…
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Israel Centeno Spanish and English version👇 Una de las tensiones más profundas en la cosmología moderna surge cuando se intenta reconciliar dos categorías que, por definición, se excluyen mutuamente: lo finito y lo eterno. Algunos modelos especulativos —como los de inflación eterna o el multiverso— intentan postular un universo eterno, sin origen ni fin. Pero,…
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Israel Centeno “The so-called sex recession is puzzling in part because sex has seemingly never been less stigmatized or easier to procure. As Jia Tolentino of The New Yorker observes, “The electronic devices in our pockets contain not only a vast universe of free porn but also apps on which casual sex can be arranged…
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