"I believe, with Péguy, that a great philosophy is not that which installs a definitive truth, but that which introduces a restlessness; it is not that which gives assurances to man, but that which shows him his condition of being out in the open."

I received my first philosophical formation at the Universidad Panamericana and at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Those years were marked by a special interest in phenomenology, which interested me as a new form of scientific knowledge, capable of bringing to light the experiences of consciousness, and from there elaborate a true science of subjectivity. 

At that time, I met Miguel García-Baró, who agreed to direct my doctoral thesis on St. Augustine at Comillas University, in whom I found a powerful exploration of human interiority and a profound development of man's religious restlessness. At the same time, I was interested in the problems surrounding Modernity and the spiritual situation of contemporary man. This led me to meet Ivan Illich and Charles Taylor. This framework has allowed me to think about certain modalities of the constitution of subjective identity. Thus, it is perhaps in Charles Péguy that my interests converge: a philosophy of the person strongly oriented by the analysis of religious life in the context of the modern world. 

I published in 2020 the book Anthropology of Desire. La existencia personal en Agustín de Hipona (Madrid: Comillas), which seeks to lay the foundations for a philosophy of personal existence, updating the intuitions of St. Augustine by the hand of Maurice Blondel, contemporary phenomenology, and the thought of the Spanish philosopher Miguel García-Baró.

Books

- Diego I. Rosales. 2020. Anthropology of Desire. Personal Existence in Augustine of Hippo. Madrid: Comillas. 

- D.I. Rosales, J.D. Barrientos, A. Viñas (eds.). 2018. Philosophy and the good. Acknowledgements to Miguel García-Baró. Madrid: Ápeiron Ediciones. 

Refereed articles

- "From desire to love. Epithymía, éros y filía desde el Banquete de Platón", in Signos Filosóficos, v. 22, n. 44, July-December 2020. →

- "Restlessness and desire. The legacy of St. Augustine in contemporary philosophy," in Revista Chilena de Estudios Medievales 17, pp. 43-53, June 2020. →

- "Metaphysics of the body and of history: Charles Péguy" in Comprendre. Revista catalana de filosofía XIX/2, pp. 31-53, 2017. →

Book chapters

- "Vindication of the Body in Contemporary Ethics" in R. Sánchez, J. Medina and R. Casales (coords.) Phenomenological Investigations on Body, Mexico: Tirant Lo Blanch, 2020, pp.51-76. →

- "Restlessness and caress. Augustinian Commentary on the World, Fear and Love" in R. Casales and N. Blancas (coords.) The Essence of Love. Mexico: Tirant Lo Blanch, 2017, pp. 49-83. →

2018. D in Philosophy, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid.

Thesis: Anthropology of desire in Augustine of Hippo.

Director: Dr. Miguel García-Baró

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2017. September-December. 

Research stay. Institute of Augustinian Studies (ICP/Sorbonne), Paris. 

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2017. Master´s degree in Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Thesis: Husserl's phenomenology as a science of subjectivity.

Director: Dr. Eduardo González Di Pierro. 

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2006. B.A. in Philosophy, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico.

Thesis: Irreducibility of human life according to empathy.  Development in Edith Stein and in phenomenological consideration.

Director: Dr. Rodrigo Guerra López

- Professor in the Department of Humanities at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

- Visiting Professor in the Doctorate of Humanities at the Universidad Anáhuac, Xalapa.