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—
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Research Framework
The essays collected here develop an original philosophical framework at the intersection of ontology, philosophy of time, metaphysics, phenomenology, and Catholic theology.
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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
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The Eucharist and the first temptation reveal opposite structures of sign and reality, illuminating why sacramental signs must remain faithful to the truths they signify.
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La Eucaristía y la primera tentación revelan estructuras opuestas de signo y realidad, y muestran por qué los signos sacramentales deben permanecer fieles a las verdades que significan.
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Christ refuses not merely to resist temptation but to preserve the truthful speech of creation, where every creature remains faithful to the meaning bestowed upon it by the Logos.
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Cristo no se niega meramente a resistir la tentación, sino a preservar el habla veraz de la creación, donde cada criatura permanece fiel al significado que le otorgó el Logos.
About
Oscar Gaitan is a Nicaraguan-born 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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