c. Positivism

Almost all of the thinkers through the generation that desired intellectual and cultural emancipation through the colonial past arrived to determine with all the philosophy of positivism, which dominated a lot of the intellectual landscape of Latin America through the entire last half regarding the century that is nineteenth. Strictly talking, positivism started in European countries with all the philosopher that is french Comte (1798-1859), nonetheless it ended up being warmly welcomed by many people Latin American intellectuals who saw Comte’s motto of “order and progress” as being a European form of whatever they was struggling on their own.