Una visión de la ilustración alemana y francesa en la construcción de una identidad filosófica Latinoamericana.

Abstract

This thesis examines the concept of the Enlightenment from its first appearance in the 18th century as a process of intellectualism to the contemporary world, a movement that brought about a change in cultures. The possibility that this intellectual movement undergoes a series of changes and is updated is a consequence of a kinetic society that is molding itself to new times. Ergo, the Enlightenment must adapt to cultural dynamism, but it must first be understood from its beginnings, in the good and bad changes, its characteristics, and how it has reached the 21st century, a journey in which it has been the main character in humanity's passage through time. This path has marked the Enlightenment as a phenomenon present in the freedom of each individual, inviting them to think and fulfill themselves in a society renewed by the free promulgation of knowledge, as seen at the beginning of its process, the same process that has led man to commit moral and immoral acts, create technologies, develop an idea of consumerism, and, in short, gain total control over the actions of the subject. The arrival of the independence of thought from objects is the first piece of the domino effect of thought, because it has traversed all the historical events that have marked humanity, in such a way that its avalanche of free use of criticism comes to an end in Latin America. Where the Enlightenment is a copy of the French or German one, or at least that is what globalization leads us to believe, taking away the great merit of Latin American thought, in the demonstration of a need to adapt to a new Enlightenment outside the eye of the hurricane of commercialism of the powers that be, which catapults a new Enlightenment that has mutated from hermeneutic logos to commercial logos, and although it may seem that Latin identity is lost, the exhibition shows how it is possible to form a geographical coincidence thanks to Hellenization.