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One of the things he has learned, with some surprise, is that the Plaza de Armas can be a good place to read -you can sit for hours, if it is a good sunny day is enjoyable, and one can combine concentration (no one bothers) with distraction (observe your surroundings). At least for me it […]

One of the advantages of abandoning the claim that human beings are apart from the rest of nature is that it allows you to then think of a completely natural comparative analysis. And with them it happens that, at the same time, some peculiarities of the species may be more embossed. At times it may […]

The Ethics of Liberation Enrique Dussel is one of the major works of philosophy written in Latin America. In this entry we will work to expose, very briefly some of the main ideas of the book; in the next entry we will perform the analysis of them. Is at the same time a position critical […]

Having performed in the previous entry for a description of some of the main ideas of Enrique Dussel Ethics of Liberation, in this entry we will focus on some comments on the text. The first is laudatory, the second most critical. As to found an ethics material, content, without falling into the naturalistic fallacy The […]

On other occasions we have written about the issue of plurality (see recently entries A sociality plural and The plural construct and open in the social world), but it is not back on the subject. Because, I think, it is necessary to insist on that condition baseline of the sociality of human beings -which is […]

The surveys are in a situation that is worthy of note: we Know that in recent years have encountered great difficulty in giving account of reality (Brexit, the plebiscite colombian, I do not have the choice of EE.UU, because in that case the national yes were close to the distribution of the vote). And, at […]

A no small part of feminism contemporary presents itself as a critique of capitalism (to defeat the patriarchy is part of the same movement that leads to defeat capitalism). The argument of this input will defend that a no small part of arguments well spacious the interior of feminism are not only perfectly compatible with […]

There will be more, I guess, to communicate in this blog the fact that the journal Tape of Moebio, dedicated to the issues of epistemology in the Social Sciences, published an article of my authorship. The title is something tinning, but you are going to do: Theory of sociality as interaction: towards a social analysis […]

A good sociologist should be, at the same time, someone who moved with the same ease in the field of mathematics -you know, for example, of truth, reasoning with probabilities, statistical distributions-in relation to the meanings that you may understand the distinctions and intentions of the various such – and in regard to the theory […]

Usually in sociology, and this is true for other social sciences and to the humanities, what is more usual is to think of human beings as des-biologizados: the fact that they are beings cultural makes that there is no such thing as biological determinism or anything like that. I have criticized this position on other […]