Humanities in Latin America academies

Abstract

This article originates from one of the presentations offered in the IV Encuentro de Humanidades “Citizen participation, humanism, and social commitment: between theory and practice”, held in June of 2013 in Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. This production addresses diverse topics about Humanities, in contrast to the “hard” sciences and their importance in Latin American universities, both from an epistemological and practical perspective. Also, it questions contemporary philosophic education, which must relate itself with the effort to learn about the reality of “Our America” in order to transform it. On this respect, the universities are the ones responsible, with a humanistic perspective, to define, from a holistic point of view of philosophy, the countless dimensions of human work.