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Describes the European intellectual environment at the beginning of the 20th century that prompted Max Weber to adamantly defend his connection between the Protestant ethic & the rise of capitalism, focusing on Felix Rachfahl's & Ernst Troeltsch's debate in the German philosophical discourse. Rachfahl's criticism centered on the history of capitalism & disagreed with Weber's claim that Protestantism preceded capitalism. Rachfahl used the case of Holland to argue that modern capitalism was already established before the Reformation. Troeltsch accepted but downplayed Weber's connection between Protestantism & capitalism while arguing for the impact of secular social contracts, sociopolitical revolutions, & Catholic groups throughout Europe from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. D. Bajo

The political commitment of Heidegger with nazism has been subjected, since 1946, to strong moral criticism. In 1989, Víctor Farías Heidegger et le nazisme, failed to submit any new hard data to what was already known since 1962. This article demonstrates that Farías' book is biased and not conclusive as regards the "new" evidence submitted in it. Furthermore, neither Farías nor other "moral" criticisms of his kind have been able to demonstrate a direct link between Heidegger's political commitment and his philosophical thought. Heidegger's philosophy should be criticized, but in a rational rigorous argumentation, already proposed either by neoweberians or by Habermas.

El articulo examina las relaciones economicas y diplomaticas de Mexico con los paises miembros de la Comunidad Economica Europea que, lejos de ser conflictivas, tienden a se fortificar cada vez mas en mutua colaboracion, ya sea por medio de acuerdos bilaterales, ya por avances en el dialogo interregional. El autor subraya la importancia de estas relaciones y concluye que la politica exterior mexicana enfrenta actualmente perspectivas sumamente prometedoras

The notion of justice can be analyzed from various viewpoints, eg, as a phenomenon to be studied for its own sake, or as a goal of the political system. The latter viewpoint was given considerable impetus in the Anglo-Saxon countries by the publication of John Rawls's Theory of Justice (1971 [no further publication data given]). However, in spite of his intentions of providing a transhistorical conceptualization of justice, Rawls's theory was linked too closely to the presuppositions of Anglo-Saxon political association to have universal validity. In this light, various concepts of justice are examined from Ancient Greece & Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Marxist theory, & the Viennese jurist Hans Kelsen (What is Justice, Law, and Politics in the Mirror of Science, Los Angeles: U Calif Press, 1957), leading to the conclusion tha the idea of justice is closely tied to the predominant political values of the specific epoch. M. Meeks