Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/kfagan Recent documents in Kevin T. Fagan en-us Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:34:49 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/9 http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/9 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:32:52 PDT Submitted to the journal Alba de América. Kevin Fagan Articles http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/8 http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/8 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:11:33 PST "¿Combustible?" "Mitad petróleo, mitad amor," me responde enseguida el ingeniero a bordo de este museo con rieles, Viejo Expreso Patagónico, o "La Trochita", único tren de vapor de trocha angosta que queda en el mundo. Considerada por sus admiradores como patrimonio de la humanidad. Kevin Fagan Articles http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/7 http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/7 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:11:19 PST Todo cambia y evoluciona en la vida, y con los viajes pasa lo mismo. Un día, un destino está de moda, y al siguiente cae en el olvido. ¿Se acuerda alguien de las cataratas del Niágara? Aquí les presentamos los cinco destinos más "calientes" de los próximos años. Kevin Fagan Articles http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/6 http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/6 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:59:26 PST Kevin Fagan Articles http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/5 http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/5 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:53:35 PDT Deals with the issue of freedom of conscience in two of its principal advocates in the modem English and Spanish-speaking worlds, John Henry Newman and Miguel de Unamuno. Seemingly strange bedfellows, in their respective linguistic communities Newman is considered an intellectual defender of institutional Christianity, while Unamuno is oft characterized as its greatest heretic.This dissertation is a comparative study of both writers from a historical-critical perspective. Our aim is to suggest that the heroic defenses of conscience by both Newman and Unamuno towards the end of their lives are a logical corollary to a succession of actions and writings from their youth onwards in the affirmation of the principles of free examination and personal choice against censorship, control and coercion.In our research on Newman's and Unamuno's thought on truth and life, religion and ideology, conscience and authority, we therefore pursue that living and developing intelligence by which they wrote, argued and acted. Hence, we chronologically apply their own literary and philosophical thought over a life-time of writings to their own actions in freedom of conscience in academic, religious and political settings. Academics and activists in defense of conscience, they bear witness to its deeper meaning as related in their books, poems and letters. Both were poets, polemicists, and philosophers. Above all, both were people, willing to pay the price of expulsion, exile and loneliness, in their search for truth in life and life in truth.Therefore, our approach is both literary and philosophical. In Newman and Unamuno, we respectfully shadow the development of their own autobiographical writings. Our focus is to analyze key periods of their lives in chronological order, combining principal writings and crucial decisions. Seeking out their views on conscience from childhood memories throughout philosophical classics, the agony of personal polemics, analyses of historical Christianity, poems in exile and heroic defense of conscience against authority, we find a consistency unto death.Conclusively, we wish to deduce a theory of freedom of conscience in Newman and Unamuno vis-à-vis, churches, states and universities, as applicable to all human beings independent, but inclusive, of their religious, political and academic convictions. Kevin T. Fagan Dissertations http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/4 http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/4 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:52:53 PDT Este ensayo propone ser una introducción de dos escritores de protesta política de nuestra historia literaria hispana moderna, Domingo F. Sarmiento (1811-88) en la Argentina y Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936) en España. La personalidad compleja de Sarmiento como ensayista político, literato y promotor de la educación dentro de la Argentina, su análisis de la realidad latinoamericana poscolonial y su visión crítica de España, le proporcionan una visión interesante a Unamuno, cincuenta años después. Unamuno se confiesa devoto lector y entusiasta panegirista de Sarmiento, junto con las riquezas culturales de Argentina y sus tragedias sociales.Unamuno ve a Sarmiento como un hombre de contradicciones, al estilo español, situado entre la adulación a Europa y Estados Unidos - la llamada civilización - y la realidad latinoamericana de raíz española. Bajo el lema de cultura, Sarmiento desea superar la supuesta barbarie latinoamericana con la importación de ideas y personas civilizadas. Sin embargo, Unamuno ve que Sarmiento defiende al partido de la civilización con la energía, violencia, tumulto, agresiones e intemperancias del partido de la barbarie. Pero, igual que Unamuno, su pluma toma el lugar de las lanzas.Aún a años de distancia, los dos hombres son literatos y políticos, valientes y patriotas. Traen a España y a América en la pluma, la sangre, la vida y el corazón. A los que creemos en la fuerza de la razón contra la razón de la fuerza, nos animan a seguir convenciendo y testimoniando a las futuras generaciones. Kevin T. Fagan Articles http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/3 http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/3 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:43:32 PDT A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Dallas in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy in the Institute of Philosophic Studies. Kevin T. Fagan Dissertations http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/2 http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/2 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:56:33 PDT "Los Poetas" translated by Dr. Kevin Fagan. Kevin Fagan Articles http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/1 http://works.bepress.com/kfagan/1 Wed, 21 May 2008 17:02:39 PDT Teenagers seem easy targets for despotic groups, such as cults. Moral conscience, however, may be a dike against a sea of despotism. John Henry Newman and Miguel de Unamuno were giant defenders of conscience in their respective cultures. Their philosophies and phenomenologies of conscience depict conscience as supreme in the mind of the ordinary person, though subject to pressures, even death. This notion becomes alive in the deep religious crisis and conversion of their adolescence, marked by a sense of personal divine experience, confidence in final predestination or holy trust, and an ethical commitment. Both men, however, dissent from their religious authorities and doctrines within an environment of academic freedom, individual study, and limited coercion. Hence, the interplay of friends and environments along with personal dedication are essential to our understanding of the role of conscience as a safeguard against coercive manipulation, above all in the lives of youth. This article illuminates these themes by examining the teenage years of these two great philosophical and literary figures. Kevin T. Fagan Cultic Studies