Philosophy & Catholic Thought
Oscar Gaitan
Independent research in ontology, temporality, phenomenology, and Catholic theology.
Converso con el hombre que siempre va conmigo
—quien habla solo espera hablar a Dios un día—
Featured Essays - Destacados
Research Framework
The essays collected here develop an original philosophical framework at the intersection of ontology, philosophy of time, metaphysics, phenomenology, and Catholic theology.
Original Concepts & Structural Propositions
Research Areas
Ontology
Questions of being, identity, continuity, and persistence.
Philosophy of Time
Presence, temporality, memory, and the structure of the Now.
Catholic Theology
Grace, suffering, divine action, eternity, and the metaphysics of faith.
Phenomenology
Experience, selfhood, and first-person existence.
Metaphysical Anthropology
Human identity, moral agency, responsibility, and personhood.
Philosophy of Mathematics
Symbolic structures, abstraction, number, and ontological interpretation.
Recent Publications
Excerpt
Money can secure conditions within existence without securing existence itself; wealth may therefore conceal the creature's dependence on God rather than remove it.
Extracto
El dinero puede asegurar las condiciones dentro de la existencia sin asegurar la existencia misma; la riqueza puede por ello ocultar la dependencia de la criatura respecto de Dios en vez de removerla.
Excerpt
Genesis 3:5 becomes an epistemological question: like God in what terms? The essay defines pride as the will to occupy the grounding position.
Extracto
Génesis 3:5 se vuelve una pregunta epistemológica: ¿como Dios, en qué términos? El ensayo define la soberbia como la voluntad de ocupar la posición de fundamento.
About
Oscar Gaitan is a Nicaraguan American independent philosophical researcher based in Los Angeles, developing an original philosophical framework on temporality, ontology, and metaphysical anthropology through publicly accessible open scholarship.
He is the author of The Lemniscate of Time: A Geometric Meditation on Eternity and Temporal Succession (2026), a monograph proposing the lemniscate (∞) as a contemplative framework for understanding the relationship between time and eternity.
His essays explore philosophical theology, phenomenology, consciousness, and the structure of human existence.
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