The Humanities Department at Universidad Santo Tomás, in the current issue of Analysis magazine, gives tribute to one of the most original thinkers of Latin America.

This article shows us how from the experiences shared with the Master Daniel Herrera, phenomenology is not far from being a job in which the philosopher details the life-world as if it were an encrypted text that demands the phenomenological reflection, as if it were a magnifying glass in the hands of a rigorous reader. The text recalls the visits of Professor Juan Cepeda to the home of Master Daniel Herrera, and how he would answer his concerns making use of a magnifying glass to assist his reading.Keywords: Phenomenology; magnifying glass, phenomenological description, a sense of the world

The following study makes a general presentation of the Argentinean philosopher Rodolfo Kusch’s proposal about an American ontology, whose reflection places would turn around peculiar ways that American men have and, particularly, from the perspective of the different cosmo-visions of Amerindian thinking, the sense of categories that are important to philosophy, such as nature, the being, diversity, and affectivity