El grupo de Bogotá y la filosofía latinoamericana en la Universidad Santo Tomás: un testimonio /The Bogota group and the Latin American philosophy at the University of Santo Tomás: a testimony/O Grupo de Bogotá e a filosofia Latinoamericana na Universidade Santo Tomás: uma testemunha

Abstract IThe paper approaches, as a testimony, the theme of the history of the Bogota Group - which emerged at the University of Santo Tomás - and the Latin American Philosophy in the 1970s and 1980s, through the comments of authors and texts that have made the analysis and criticism of the same group. Five moments of the life of the group located in the philosophy of liberation movement in the continent and the country are described, so the first, the birth as a disconnection of a harmless and repetitive philosophy; second, the approach to the needs or urgencies of the nascent project; third, the creative emergence of the initiatives that gave rise to institutions and mediations still present in the life of the university and the country; the fourth moment, the delay or pause that is related to self-criticism; the fifth moment, the consolidation work close to maturity. Through the text appears the decisive role played in the formation of the group by the teachers of the Philosophy of Liberation, especially professor Enrique Dussel. Hagámoslo mancomunadamente con todos los que trabajan en temáticas y prácticas de género, de estudios culturales, de complejos proyectos decoloniales, en un continente y un mundo donde la vida se degrada, se obliga a abortar, se fusila, se decapita, se bombardea, pero donde seguimos buscando hacer efectivo lo que nos enseñara Kusch (1978): Y es que en el fondo (de América) se tropieza violentamente con el milagro de ser hombre, con su profunda e inalienable vejez de serlo, pero que hace recién a partir de aquí a un futuro denso, auténtico, fundado, aunque nunca se sepa cuál es el fundamento.