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Positivism in Mexico (Paperback)
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Positivism in Mexico (Paperback)
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Positivism, not just an "ivory tower" philosophy, was a major force
in the social, political, and educational life of Mexico during the
last half of the nineteenth century. Once colonial conservatism had
been conquered, the French Intervention ended, and Maximilian of
Hapsburg executed, reformers wanted to create a new national order
to replace the Spanish colonial one. The victorious liberals strove
to achieve "mental emancipation," a kind of second independence,
which would abolish the habits and customs imposed on Mexicans by
three centuries of colonialism. At this singular moment in Mexican
history, positivism was offered as an extraordinary means and
pathway to a new order. The next stage was the education of the
Mexican people in this liberal philosophy and their incorporation
into the process of development achieved by modern nations.
Leopoldo Zea traces the forerunners of liberal thought and their
influence during Juarez's time and shows how this ideology
degenerated into an "order and progress" philosophy that served
merely to maintain colonial forms of exploitation and, at the same
time, to create new ones that were peculiar to the neocolonialism
that the great nations of the world imposed on other peoples. Zea
examines the regime of Porfirio Diaz and its justification by the
positivist philosophers of the period. He concludes that the
conflict between exploited social groups, on the one hand, and
foreign interests and a middle class on the margin of an oligarchy,
on the other, brought about the movement known as the Mexican
Revolution.
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