Philosophy as Commitment (1952) (2024)

Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: Essential Readings

Carlos Alberto Sanchez (ed.), Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr. (ed.)

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19 October 2017

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30 November 2017

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9780190601331

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9780190601294

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Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: Essential Readings

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    October 2017

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Zea, Leopoldo, and Amy A. Oliver, 'Philosophy as Commitment (1952)', in Carlos Alberto Sanchez, and Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr. (eds), Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: Essential Readings, Oxford New Histories of Philosophy (New York, 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Oct. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190601294.003.0010, accessed 29 Nov. 2024.

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Here Leopoldo Zea, the presumptive leader of the Hiperión group, appeals to Sartrean existentialism in order to make his case for the responsibility of philosophy and philosophers. He writes that persons have been thrown into a world that they did not create, which places them in the presence of others for whom they are now responsible. Just as Sartre had announced that persons were condemned to be free, Zea here proclaims that they are condemned to this commitment and this responsibility. This is a call to all Mexican and Latin American philosophers who might believe that the labor of philosophy is of little consequence or that the responsibilities they assume as philosophers are only provisional. Indeed, philosophy as commitment is a philosophy for one’s world, one’s circumstance, and one’s fellows.

Keywords: Leopoldo Zea, existentialism, Hiperión, Sartre, responsibility

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Philosophy Social and Political Philosophy

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Amy A. Oliver

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