Jaime Araos

WINTER, SPRING 2025

Jaime Araos has researched Greek philosophy, addressing issues in logic, metaphysics, and ethical and political philosophy related to democratic theory. His work explores the metaphysical and epistemological assumptions of liberal democracy, the role of tolerance in the modern state, and the crisis of representation in contemporary democracy.

He has been a full professor of philosophy at UMCE, the Universidad de Chile, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford and has been a recurring visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Aix-Marseille Université, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and the Graduate Program in Bioethics at Universidad de Chile, where he teaches Aristotelian Ethics. He holds a PhD from the Universidad de Navarra (1990) and both an MPhil and a BPhil from the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.

He has been awarded the President of the Republic scholarship in his home country and has received eight research grants from universities in Europe and the USA. He has obtained fourteen research projects funded by international institutions such as AECI and the OAS, as well as national entities like Fondecyt, the Vice-Rectorate for Research at UC, and the Research Directorate of UMCE. Additionally, he is the founder of the newly established Ibero-American Research Network on Current Thought (RIPA).

He is the author of over fifty specialized articles and six books, including (translated into English) The Philosophy of Language in Aristotle; Plato and Aristotle: New Perspectives on Metaphysics, Ethics, and Epistemology; Political Rationality, Public Virtues, and Intercultural Dialogue; Don't Learn Philosophy; Learn to Philosophize!; and Love of Wisdom: Studies in Metaphysics and Ethics.

Professor Araos is conducting research during the winter quarter, 2025 and teaching the course PHIL 215A: Ancient Democratic Theory and Contemporary Problems of Latin American Democracy (PHIL 115A) during the spring quarter, 2025.