Maria C. Donadío Maggi de Gandolfi
Date and place of birth: 13 November 1944, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Appointment to the Academy: 22 November 1995
Scientific discipline: Philosophy
Academic title: Full Professor
Academic awards and distinctions
Summa Cum Laude, Ph.D. in Philosophy, UCA-1997. Graduated with Honors, Bachelor in Philosophy, UCA-1970. Gold Medal, Professor of Philosophy, UCA-1968. Gold Medal, High School, 1962. Full Professor (since 1968) of Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, at different Universities. Diploma for twenty-five years as Professor at UCA (1993). Diploma Coaptationis Caussa, Pontificia Academia Romana Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 1995. Member of the ‘Academia del Plata’. Faja de Honor ‘P. Leonardo Castellani’, XVII Exhibition of Catholic Books for Biodiversidad y Biotecnología. Reflexiones en Bioética (05/09/05). Adviser at: CONICET, SECYT, CONEAU, ANPCyT, UBA, UCA, CIAFIC, IAEM, FONDECYT. Secretary of various Institutes: Argentine Thomistic Society (since 1985); Archiepiscopal Commission for Women (since 1996); Institute of Bioethics of the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (since 2003). Member of the Editorial Board of Sapientia (UCA-Argentine) and Philosophica (Univ. Valparaíso, Chile).
Academic Background
Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Pontifical Argentine Catholic University St. Mary of Buenos Aires (UCA). Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Argentine Catholic University St. Mary of Buenos Aires (UCA), since 1968. Fellow and researcher at the Institute for Practical Philosophy, CONICET (1970-1995). Researcher in Philosophy at the CONICET, since 1970; currently Principal Researcher.
Summary of scientific research
St. Thomas Aquinas: metaphysical, ethical, social and political problems, in dialogue with contemporary philosophers and currents. Contemporary ethics in philosophers of the English language; subject: ‘The place of reason in Ethics’. Bioethical problems: philosophical foundations, in dialogue with scientific and medical approaches. Philosophy of education: its philosophical foundations and pedagogical currents. Philosophy of woman: its philosophical foundations in connection with international law, conferences and NGOs. Director of Research in all these subjects for scholarships, bachelors and doctorships.
Main publications
Books/Chapters Comentario al “Libro del Alma de Aristóteles” de Sto. Tomás de Aquino, Latin-Spanish translation, bilingual edition, Buenos Aires, Arché, 1979; La palabra, Cursos de Cultura Católica, collective volume VIII, pp, 215-228, UCA, Buenos Aires, 1990-1991; La justificación racional de la incorruptibilidad del alma humana, Studi Tomistici, Pontificia Accademia di S. Tommaso, n. 42, pp. 22-36, A.A.V.V., Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1991; Ética de la organización social, Cursos de Cultura Católica, collective volume IX, pp. 34-53, UCA, Buenos Aires, 1991-1992; La herejía moderna, Cursos de Cultura Católica, collective volume X, pp. 190-202, UCA, Buenos Aires, 1992-1993; Propuestas de heroísmo: falsificación de las virtudes teologales, Cursos de Cultura Católica, collective volume XI, pp. 211-225, UCA, Buenos Aires, 1993-1994; ¿Qué está en la mira de la rebelión posmodernista en educación?, pp. 121-136, collective volume, OIKOS, Buenos Aires, 1994; El mundo contemporáneo y las virtudes teologales, Miscellanea Brunero Gherardini, pp. 114-130, A.A.V.V., Pontificia Accademia di S. Tommaso, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1996; El papel de la filosofía moral en la moral teológica de Santo Tomás, “S. Tommaso Filosofo. Ricerche in occasione dei due centenari accademici”, A.A.V.V., Pontificia Accademia di S. Tommaso, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1995; Fundamento positivista de los derechos humanos, Cursos de Cultura Católica, collective volume XII, pp. 23-34, UCA, Buenos Aires, 1995-1996; Defensa de la persona humana, Comisión Arquidiocesana de la Mujer, collective volume Buenos Aires, 1997; Fundamentos morales de la bioética, Instituto de Ética Biomédica, UCA, Buenos Aires, 1998; Aspectos históricos de los principios que soportan la bioética, in “Principios de Bioética”, pp. 27-58, collective volume, Instituto de Ética Biomédica, UCA, Buenos Aires, 1998; Todo en el hombre es humano, in “Santo Tomás de Aquino: huma-nista cristiano”, XXIII Semana Tomista, pp. 203-213, collective volume, Sociedad Tomista Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1999; El hombre: imagen y semejanza de Dios, Ciclos de Cultura y Ética Social, pp. 187-197, collective volume, CIES, Buenos Aires, 1999; Necesidad de revalorizar la razón humana, in “Fe y razón – Comentarios a la Encíclica”, pp. 155-158, collective volume, Educa, Buenos Aires, 1999; Amor y bien. Los problemas del amor, en Santo Tomás de Aquino (Ph.D. in Philosophy), EDUCA, Buenos Aires, 1999; Filosofía moral, Curso de bioética a distancia, Instituto de Ética Biomédica, módulo 1, UCA, 1999; Trasgressione dell’umano nella cultura contemporanea, en A.A.V.V., “Persona Humana: Imago Dei et Christi in Historia, Atti del Congresso Internazionale”, Roma 6-8 settembre 2000, vol. 2, pp. 63-77, Angelicum University Press, Roma, 2002; La naturaleza salvaguarda la ciencia, en A.A.V.V., “Scientia, Fides & Sapientia, Festschrift Gustavo Eloy Ponferrada”, pp. 263-282, UCALP, La Plata, 2002; El bien y los valores. De Tomás a Scheler, en A.A.V.V., “Festschrift R. P. Dr. Leo J. Elders, SVD”, pp. 115-125, Damon, Kerkrade, NL, 2003; Biodiversidad y Biotecnología – Reflexiones en bioética, 187 pp., EDUCA, Buenos Aires, 2004; Axiología y metafísica del bien, en A.A.V.V., “Los fundamentos metafísicos del orden moral, XXVII Semana Tomista, Festschrift Mons. Octavio Nicolás Derisi”, pp. 225-233, EDUCA, Buenos Aires, 2004.
Address
Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Avda. Alicia Moreau de Justo 1500
1107 Buenos Aires (Argentina)
