Abstract

LERTORA MENDOZA, Celina A. A WITNESS OF THE CREOLE ENLIGHTNED POLITICAL THOUGHT: MANUEL MORENO. Rev.hist.educ.latinoam. [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.23, pp.79-96. ISSN 0122-7238.

The Creole Enlightenment must be took into accout with its relation with the european enlightenment, but with suitable developments and differentiated according to the regions and the local traditions. This work has taken into account just one feature agreed as own of the enlightment: the political reformist principles. I analyze an outstanding text of the political ideas sustained by persons who did a political praxes since 1810 from now on, to see what are the features that can be considered as Enlightenment tradition and, at the same time how the situation they assumed by applying: life and memories of Dr. D. Mariano Moreno, Manuel Moreno, his brother, published in London, short time later the death of the biographer, in 1812. The proposal serves as a central axis of thel ideas of illustrated character that can be traced in this text and that turn concerning the above mentioned axis, are: 1. The civil participation in the public thing; 2. The political despotic mistakes; 3. The freedom of commerce: 4. The legitimization of the insurrection; 5. The censoring; 6. The education; 7. The liberal professions; 8. The training of a good politician. It finished with the appeal that announced the creole pragmatism which guided to the most clever politicians of the new generation. It cocludes that the analized features prooved the hipothesis.

Keywords : Journal History ofthe Latin American Educatio; Manuel Moreno; Mariano Moreno; Enlightment from La Plata; Policy reforming; Enlightment despotism.

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