Abstract

LOAIZA CANO, Gilberto. Reason of State and science of society. (The case of José Eusebio Caro and his Social Mechanics, Nueva Granada, 1836). Prax. filos. [online]. 2021, n.53, pp.133-156.  Epub Aug 27, 2021. ISSN 0120-4688.  https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i53.11372.

This essay is a contribution to the history of thought in Colombia and studies the manuscript of José Eusebio Caro (1817-1853) entitled Social Mechanics (1836) in which its young author intended to establish the foundations of a science of society when the State was trying to build the monopoly of legal knowledge. Our analysis suggests that Colombian thought at the time was affiliated with the methods and theories of human behavior and organization of society from some currents of French thought from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, particularly those postulated from the group gathered in the Société d’Observateurs de l´Homme.

Keywords : Society; Human Behavior; Intellectual History; Analytic Method; Reason of State.

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