LOS IMPRESCINDIBLES DE LA FILOSOFÍA MEXICANA CONTEMPORÁNEA

LOS HISTORIADORES DE LAS IDEAS

Abstract

In this article we briefly explain
the ideas of seven Mexican scholars (José
Gaos, Leopoldo Zea, Luis Villoro, Carmen
Rovira, Edmundo O’Gorman, Graciela Hierro
and Mauricio Beuchot). Their original
approaches have influenced the philosophical
environment of the second half
of the XX century, which allows us to categorise
them as “essential to the contemporary
Mexican philosophy”. Their studies
are based on the awareness of the necessity
of making the history of ideas of their own
country as the required condition to create
philosophy. Thus, the knowledge of their
own history of philosophy, allows their
philosophical work to emerge as a solution
to the problems of their own context and
circumstance.