Historia de las ideas en los trabajos de grado, que delimitados al positivismo, se han desarrollado en la Maestría en Filosofía Latinoamericana

Abstract

Ideas history is one of the principal investigative purposes of the Latin-American Philosophy Master, many thesis, that get by a systematic way how some philosophic have been introduced into our country, have been developed around it, identifying authors, postulates, adaptations, critical positions, and bibliography. All of them together become in a method to chronicle ideas and thoughts and a method to identify reflexive elements around of Latin-American being. From this, this document author analyzes the content of some of this works. To get this, in first place the master investigative proposal is identified; then, it needs to be described which has been the development of Ideas History in Latin-America, and in the Filosofía y Letras Faculty of Santo Tomas University; when that is done, all positivists thesis are summarized since they are the defining philosophical current of the selected works for analysis, and how the Comte and Spencer ideas influenced the country in the second half of 19th Century; finally, generalities of each work analyzed are identified, the trouble posed by the author, thematic structures, currents and sources where they are supported from and the applied methodology.