Jorge Portilla on philosophy and agential liberation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21395032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Garcia Torres (0000-0001-7514-6694, Department of Philosophy and Religion in Wingate University Wingate NC USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 246-262 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Southern Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-4283 • E-ISSN: 2041-6962 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sjp.12548 |
| OpenAlex | W4388460972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Jorge Portilla argues that authentic philosophical inquiry plays a liberating function. This function is that of bringing more fully to consciousness aspects of identities or ways of being‐in‐the world that have been, up until then, tacit or opaque to the agent herself to facilitate her endorsement, rejection, or modification of these identities. For Portilla, this function facilitates greater self‐mastery by increasing the range of free variations of subjectivity available to the agent, and this increase in self‐mastery itself constitutes a kind of liberation . The main goal of this article is to provide a substantive interpretation of the nature of liberation Portilla thinks is embedded in this central function of authentic philosophical inquiry. I argue that this type of liberation should be understood ultimately in terms of increases in human agency, so I label it “agential liberation.” For Portilla, agential liberation involves two central elements: (i) a type of agential flourishing central to human flourishing, and (ii) an increase in the reach of intentional action that I describe as an expansion in the arena of human agency
Action (physics) · Agency (philosophy) · Consciousness · Epistemology · Flourishing · Function (biology) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Liberation · Sociology · Subjectivity · Chemistry · Cultural and Social Dynamics · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |