Abstract

PANDURO MUNOZ, Benjamín; BATTESTIN, Claudia  and  JUNG, Hildegard Susana. The need of philosophy in the Latin American social problem. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.3, pp.420-435. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v22.n3.2.

The article aims to reflect the importance of philosophy in the context of contemporary and in the case of Latin America, its social problems. Corruption scandals in countries such as Mexico and Brazil are only the tip of the iceberg of a whole structural situation that prevents the processes of public administration from giving in a coherent, efficient and transparent manner. With a qualitative and theoretical methodology, it seeks to critically review the fundamental concepts, visions and precepts of our regional culture in order to value them and to have a point of reference regarding the offer of uncompromising forms of behavior with the human being. The results indicate that, social philosophy is of great importance, addressing the general problems of society so that one does not lose sight of the human being. Although the social sciences have advanced a lot, with great results, we can not only stay with these studies because we would deny the possibility of re-creating and feeding the vision of the human being; We would have a marked tendency towards instrumental science based on an ontological, ethical and anthropological skepticism. In this sense, to stop making philosophy about social problems is to follow the game of skeptics of the human being, is to let, in the name of science, to annihilate the truth; A shameful thing, for the search for truth is what gives it meaning from the principles of scientific activity. The general problems of society must also be approached from philosophy so that one does not lose the view that people have about the human.

Keywords : Importance of Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Latin America; Philosophy and Contemporaneity.

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