El Primer Debate Sobre Bentham en Colombia: Supuestos Antropológicos, Disputas Educativas, Aspiraciones Nacionales

Abstract

This article arises since the view of a historical and pedagogical anthropology, a preliminary approach to the first debate on Bentham in Colombia in the 19th century. On the first part clarifies the concept of historical anthropology and pedagogy in the specific field of Anthropologic. The second part is developing a brief contextualization of the debate at beginning 19th century; this contextualization allows an approach to investigation topic. Finally it is proposed from two primary documents they were part of the debate, one way from the moral, this is from the individual to society. Since a point of view, moral disagreements between who participated in the debate are at the same time, national disagreements, and differences in the way of conceiving the nation state. The analysis of nationalism seen in this way need to pass through the anthropological conceptions that manage the nationalist movements, in this case, the Creole elite, and that lead them to make, perhaps without knowing it, to man that as a citizen will be.