Acerca de la naturaleza de las ciencias sociales (Colección Palabra y Acción)

by Estanislao Zuleta

103 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Estanislao Zuleta Velásquez was a Latin American philosopher, writer and professor from Colombia. He was known especially for his works on the universities being a professor for all his life. More important than his writings, Zuleta is remembered by his conferences that were carefully recorded by his colleagues and pupils and published several times during his life and after his death in 1990. He dedicated especially to philosophy, Latin American economy, psychology and education. He let treaties on ancient and modern thinkers of a rich social and historical analysis over the Latin American cultural context. He was an adviser in the United Nations, the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, the Colombian Institute for the Agrarian Reform (Incora), an adviser of former president Belisario Betancur Cuartas and a writer for Crisis Magazine of Medellín. He was rewarded by the Honoris Causa in psychology of University of Valle in 1980. The Estanislao Zuleta Foundation is the institution that keeps and promotes the legacy of the Colombian philosopher.

Reviews

[Jonathan Hockey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a quick look through this in the library the other day. Good critique of Marx and his communism. Marx's communism would be a society in which needs will be multiplied for what now is the elites luxury is required in the future to be the necessities for all.

"El comunismo sería una sociedad en que se multiplicarian las necesidades, y en la cual lo que ahora es un lujo de una elite, sería la necesidad de todos..."