vol. 12 núm. 1 (2020): episteme

The experience of the solidarity and savings bank Yes Huan of the indigenous-Zapotec municipality of Santa Lucía Miahuatlán is analyzed, which grants consumer loans and micro-business to its members. The objective is to determine their characteristics, their organization and results. In the light of liberal-intercultural communitarian theory and human de­velopment on a human scale, it is observed that, by combining community and liberal elements, they give sustainability to the service based on community par­ticipation, constituting an innovative form of commu­nity management and citizenship to overcome poverty through the combination of individual and collective capacities.

Within the framework of the Bicentennial of the In­dependence of the Latin American nations, this article analyzes the complicated challenge of the conserva­tion of the troops in Venezuela during the phase of the ceasefire decreed by the armistice signed in 1820 in Trujillo. In this internal dynamic of the military forces, the strong influence of the prevailing political environment and the fluctuating game of loyalties in this final phase of the independence process could be verified. Within the stream of new military history, an attempt is made to examine not only recruitment efforts but also high levels of desertion and changing sides that were especially detrimental to the royalist side, which ultimately ended up tipping the balance towards the realist side. Republican side. Finally, the process of replenishing the force is addressed, either through pardon for new recruits.

Manuel Ancízar wrote a series of articles by the time he joined the Chorographic Commission project along the national territory of Colombia in the Nineteen century. Such articles were serialized in El Neogranadino Newspaper, and later published in a collection called The Pilgrimage of “Alpha”. As a whole, those written pieces were supposed to be, not only a description of the provinces of Nueva Granada, but a narrative construction that included descriptions of territory, weather, crops, economy basis, people, manners, customs, education facilities, religion and politics influences. In concrete, Manuel Ancízar built a hybrid relate to integrate the scientific data about the provinces collected by all the members of the Chorographic Commission but, far from being an unappealing report, the resulting croniques managed to captivate common readers as they were written under the coordinates of the costumbrism aesthetic. On this paper it is analysed the literary form and content of “Peregrinación” de “Alpha” in both its inner-textual dimensions and the social environment that surrounded its first publication.

The nature of the Kantian genius, one of the most dis­turbing figures in the aesthetics of the philosopher of Königsberg, is discussed, conjecturing about the pos­sible role of freedom of the imagination in the genius’ task of “giving rule to art”. The darkness of the philo­sopher is postulated to explain the origin of the genius, darkness that would be explained by the permanent tension that crosses all the critique of aesthetic judge­ment between genius and taste, or if you like, between freedom and academia.

Plato’s Republic is built up around a multiplicity of images, even around the philosophical issue of image itself. In this article we would like to inquire about the image of the dog, and its savage counterpart, the wolf, in Plato’s main work. The dog plays a fundamental role in a major issue of the Republic, education. In order to achieve this, first we will investigate the anthropologi­cal function of dogs in Ancient Greece, and then we will look for its function inside the Republic.

This article is an attempt to approach hermeneutica­lly and pragmatically those difficulties presented by human rights in their exercise and implementation by the individual and collective human being in violent countries as Colombia, but also that hope permeates the global sense of the Relationship between State and Human Rights. This phenomenon of inconsistencies between the general postulates and the broad function of the State with the reality of the exercise of Human Rights will be the object of the present to reflect about possible ways of understanding the phenomena asso­ciated with Human Rights and to exercise them in an integral way.

This article analyzes the literary contributions that have been made from the Greco-Roman world in relation to the different ways of conceiving the peace. The above in order to find analogies, differences and ways of concei­ving processes of violence and peaceful understanding between the parties in conflict from events that occu­rred in societies such as Colombia, where peace has been seen at various prolonged moments of its absent existence of the feeling of the people.

This reflection article presents various aspects of humanities seen from different perspectives. The objective of this article is to reflect about the spaces of the humanities areas in higher education, in order to train people with integrity and professional ethics. The article details the theoretical and conceptual aspects of humanities. It also offers a proposal for the strengthening of human competence seen from various perspectives (family, society, education, nature, art and professions). Finally, it develops some conclusions considering that the humanities must be applied in any context, not only the academic one, but also the social one.

A characterization of the cases of intra-family violen­ce attended in 2018, in the legal office of Colombian Cooperative University in Barrancabermeja Campus; it was carried out with the purpose of describing their socio-legal aspects, considering the socioeconomic si­tuation of victims and victimizers, as well as the com­mon expressions of the causes of this type of violence and the conditions of accompaniment time during the process. Also, the legal measures granted are presented.