Robert Eli Sanchez
Biographic Data
| ID | 5650610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Eli Sanchez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Eli |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanchez |
| SIGNATURE | SÁNCHEZ R E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Twenty Years of Education in Mexico (1941)
In “Twenty Years of Education in Mexico,” Samuel Ramos offers a brief survey of education reform from 1920 to 1940. The aim of this text is not purely historical. In it he discusses the role of education in the formation of national character and philosophy, paying homage particularly to the education reform of José Vasconcelos, who understood the simple truth that “what most urgently has to be taught to the Mexican people is how to live.” Ramos …
Discourse at the Inauguration of the National University (September 22, 1910)
This chapter translates an address by Justo Sierra, in which he suggests that many of Mexico’s problems are problems with national education: “The University, then, will have sufficient power to coordinate the guiding principles of national character.” Like Antonio Caso, he believes that “[t] o cultivate wills in order to harvest egoists would be the bankruptcy of pedagogy.” For Sierra, one’s education should be grounded in or be attentive to nat…
My Two Cents
In this selection, José Gaos considers the perspectivism of his teacher, José Ortega y Gasset, who famously argued that “I am myself and my circumstance, and if I do not save my circumstance, I do not save myself.” For Gaos, and eventually for Samuel Ramos, this view provided the epistemological justification for a national or continental philosophy—“American philosophy”— insofar as it helped to explain how philosophy could be both universal (con…
Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century
Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and written an introduction to some of the most influential texts in 20th century Mexican philosophy. Together, these texts reveal and give shape to a unique and robust tradition that will certainly challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically and represent a period of Mexican thought and culture that emerges out of the…
Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century
Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and written an introduction to some of the most influential texts in 20th century Mexican philosophy. Together, these texts reveal and give shape to a unique and robust tradition that will certainly challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically and represent a period of Mexican thought and culture that emerges out of the…
Twenty Years of Education in Mexico (1941)
In “Twenty Years of Education in Mexico,” Samuel Ramos offers a brief survey of education reform from 1920 to 1940. The aim of this text is not purely historical. In it he discusses the role of education in the formation of national character and philosophy, paying homage particularly to the education reform of José Vasconcelos, who understood the simple truth that “what most urgently has to be taught to the Mexican people is how to live.” Ramos …
Discourse at the Inauguration of the National University (September 22, 1910)
This chapter translates an address by Justo Sierra, in which he suggests that many of Mexico’s problems are problems with national education: “The University, then, will have sufficient power to coordinate the guiding principles of national character.” Like Antonio Caso, he believes that “[t] o cultivate wills in order to harvest egoists would be the bankruptcy of pedagogy.” For Sierra, one’s education should be grounded in or be attentive to nat…
My Two Cents
In this selection, José Gaos considers the perspectivism of his teacher, José Ortega y Gasset, who famously argued that “I am myself and my circumstance, and if I do not save my circumstance, I do not save myself.” For Gaos, and eventually for Samuel Ramos, this view provided the epistemological justification for a national or continental philosophy—“American philosophy”— insofar as it helped to explain how philosophy could be both universal (con…
Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century
Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and written an introduction to some of the most influential texts in 20th century Mexican philosophy. Together, these texts reveal and give shape to a unique and robust tradition that will certainly challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically and represent a period of Mexican thought and culture that emerges out of the…
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Latin American Cultural Politics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Character (mathematics) (2 works) · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · National education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)