La carta de Jamaica

Más allá de la admiración y el respeto íntegros hacia el profesor Rubén Jaramillo Vélez, buscamos incitar con esta obra a una valoración, lo más ajustada posible, de uno de los intelectuales colombianos que, con sus empeños, ha conformado un entorno de argumentos para la ilustración contemporánea, como proceso en el que la crítica a los déficits de las pasadas fases de la ilustración fortalece los postulados universales de la razón ampliada.

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The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

La historia del rey de los reyes es la última obra en la que trabajó fray José de Sigüenza, cuyos últimos capítulos estaban inconclusos cuando le sobrevino la muerte en 1606. Pese a ello, la gran cantidad de texto conservada permite conocer con claridad las directrices ideológicas, intelectuales y estéticas del último gran proyecto seguntino, caracterizado por la particular impronta formal que este insuflaba a sus textos y por el seguimiento fiel de los modelos de autoridad, Montano sobre todo.