The beginning of Philosophy in Bolivia, August 1845

Abstract

French ideology and Scottish thought were the antecedents to the creation of the faculties of Humanities and Philosophy in Bolivia in the 19 century; the changes that occurred and that had an impact on the Higher Education provided by the Universities of Sucre, la Paz of Ayacucho and Cochabamba in the historical context of 1825-1860.  The bibliographic documentary analysis investigating the influences and presences of various philosophical currents according to their own methodologies and the interpretation of philosophical suspicion. Some of the results of the research are the demographic context of Bolivia in the first fifty years of the 19 century, the educational regulations in three administrations: A. J. Sucre, A. Santa Cruz and J. Ballivián, the organic decree of August 25, 1845, Luis Velasco a moralist Kantian in Sucre and the teaching of French and Italian eclecticism at the University Elderly, Real and Pontifical of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca with two representative exponents M. Cortés and M. Caballero. The conclusions that are derived: a moral philosophy course that begins in the Republic of Bolivia the study of Philosophy in the humanities from and commissoned by the State, in the three existing university districts but it is in Cochabamba where the new Faculty is actually created and the importance of philosophical translations in the elaboration of Bolivian thought..