Aportes del pensamiento latinoamericano a la comprensión de la relación entre los conceptos de universidad, humanismo y sociedad

Abstract

This article is developed under the research project called “Convergences and divergences of Christian humanism with other humanisms” which has being worked in the humanism and peace research line at Universidad Católica de Manizales, Anthropos Research Group. The context for reflection of research posed by the project is a retrospective view of humanism as an anthropological category from which a dialogic relationship between the current context of academia and social realities supporting it is established. This perspective is confronted with the contemporary view about the Latin American thought and its impact on education, mainly in the university context, thinking about the natural relationship that the university has with the concept of society. In this way, a line from which the historical framework of the humanities, placing the speech about the Renaissance and Enlightenment, is drawn in order to identify tensions and possibilities that allowed the emergence and continuity of this school of thought in those moments. Finally the article concludes with a reflection about otherness and, in relation to it, the role that is played by the university as a social institution committed with the contextual realities which today demand the academy to assume a critical, reflective and propositive position concerning the dominant needs of today’s world.

Keywords:

Pensamiento Latinoamericano

Universidad

Humanismo

Sociedad

Latin American Thinking

University

Humanism

Society

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