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CARMEN'S PAGE
(meanwhile only available in Spanish)
My activities at the "Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru" Administrating the
Peruvian Philosophical Webring
Curriculum Vitae Organizing the
Philosophical Cafés in Lima
Member of the committee of edition of the
Peruvian Journal of Applied Philosophy  (RPFA)		 Member of the
Peruvian Unreligious Movement  (MPA)
Organizing the
Proyect of Applied Philosophy
as a member of the border of the Cultural and Educational Asociation Buho Rojo

Publications and papers:
Subjects that I'm planning to discuss here : Member of the PPW Peruvian Philosophy Webring:
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ABOUT ME

I work as an adviser at the ELEPUC (Foreign Language School) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) (but I'm not a catholic), where I finished my Degree studies in Philosophy. I concluded my Master studies in Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
Together with some other Peruvian philosphers I'm working at the time on the PPW Peruvian Philosophy Webring:
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I grew up in Germany with my brother, since my mother studied there. We returned to Peru during the militar "Revolution", and my brother and I returned to Europe in the 80's. There I studied different things and had all kind of jobs ( Curriculum [in Spanish]) in Sweden, France, Danmark and Germany. I never finished anything then. I guess my life had been very chaotic, but I loved it that way.
1990 I returned to Peru and started a more "serious" life.

I'm 35 and my son Ephraim is 16. My second husband is also a philosopher (Philosophy of Art) and a musician. We like to make music together. He plays the piano and I play the recorder. My son is learning to play the guitar, so I hope he will soon join us making music. . I still like adventures and we use to travel quite a lot, but inside Peru (in the jungle and the Andes). I love the theatre (from time to time I write a little bit drama myself) and I like classical music (Mozart, Smetana) and folkmusic from almost all countries.

Well, I hope this is enough to get a general picture of me.

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What I am working on at present

I'm studying Plato's influence in Hartmann, Husserl and Heidegger. I think these three phenomenologists are very close to Plato's thinking, although Heidegger (f.ex) would deny this in many of his writings. The goal of all my interest for philosophy is to make clearer that almost everything that had to be said, has already been said by Plato (These three phenomenologists tried to say more or less the same thing in different, more complicated, words). Most other point of views (variations to Trasimachos, Gorgias',etc. points of view) have already been answered to by Plato. So I think it's time for philosophy to begin to work in the praxis (any praxis corresponding to each ones theory). Philosophers should try to live following their (own) principles. This means of course, that they should try to live this life together with the people that surround them (mostly their families), to see if their ethical and political (in the wide sens) points of view are really as "good" as they seemed to them in theory. I can't see any other way to work on in philosophy, that wouldn't be just a waste of time and that in fact, as a consecuence, wouldn't be any philosophy at all, since it wouldn't approach us to more knowledge or wisdom. I'm not saying that this hasn't been said before or that philosophers in their praxis never were consecuent to their theories (just think of Plato, Wittgenstein, etc.); nor am I trying to renegate from the traditional academic work of philosophy. But this theorical work, that should never be neglected, has no sense if it isn't conected to a consecuent praxis.
Reading Plato
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Papers and other works

Publications and papers: BOOK PUBLICATION
Maúrtua, Miní, Obando, Solís & Zavala, Proyecto de Filosofía Aplicada  Lima:Ediciones Espigón, 1998, pp.157
 

2. In HTML Design & WEB Publishing:

IN PROJECT:

1. Next Publication of a Book with Translations of Texts of Martin Heidegger: "Footprints in the Desert" [Provisional Title] Translated from German into Spanish by Aurelio Miní, Carmen Zavala and Fernando Tapia with the Support of the Academic Direction of Investigations (DAI) of University Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)
Contents:
  1. Phenomenology and Theology (1927)

    2. [Phänomenologie und Theologie]
    Fenomenología y Teología
  2. Ways to an Aclaration (1937)

    3. [Wege zur Aussprache]
    Caminos hacia una Aclaración
  3. The Remembrance into the Metaphysics (1941)

    4. [Die Erinnerung in die Metaphysik]
    La Evocación al Interior de la Metafísica
  4. The Turning (1949)

    5. [Die Kehre]
    La Torna*
  5. Time and Being (1962)

    6. [Zeit und Sein]
    Tiempo y Ser*
  6. Acts of a Seminary about the Conference "Time and Being" (1962)

    7. [Protokoll zu einem Seminar über den Vortrag "Zeit und Sein"]
    Actas de un Seminario sobre la Conferencia "Tiempo y Ser"*
  7. A Letter to Richardson (1962)

    8. [Brief an Richardson]
    Carta a Richardson*
  8. Sojourns (1962)

    9. [Aufenthalte]
    Permanencias
  9. The Procedence of Art and the Determination of Thinking (1967)

    10. [Die Herkunft der Kunst und die Bestimmung des Denkens]
    La Procedencia del Arte y la Determinación del Pensar
  10. The Inhabitating of Human Being (1970)

    11. [Das Wohnen des Menschen]
    El Habitar del Hombre
* In Revision

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