Rafael Carillo, Luis Eduardo Nieto, Julio Enrique Blanco: Caribbean men pioneers of modern philosophy in Colombia

Abstract

This article is a product of the institutional research project carried out at Universidad Popular del Cesar by the Cátedra Carrillo research group, whose objective is to clarify and present a didactic synthesis of the philosophy of law and the humanistic thought of Rafael Carrillo Lúquez, highlighting its impact on the presence of modern philosophy in Colombia. To achieve this, a qualitative documentary and field research was carried out on philosophy in the Latin American context and the normalization process that was made in Colombia. In this, three men from the Caribbean played a very important role: two from Barranquilla and one from Valledupar, whose influences not only contributed to achieving the effort of normalization, but also began a new phase in the way of thinking that was definitive in opening the country towards universal philosophical concerns and work.  Moreover, it was the beginning of a new intellectual atmosphere in the national academic environment, since philosophy began to be taught in a less rigid, more dynamic and in context way, addressing analytical and critical reflection on the country's problems, supported in the conceptual tools of this discipline of thinking.