Mexico

This course addresses concepts related to happiness as a purpose of life; sense of community, and human flourishing, covering topics such as the biopsychosocial self; mentral restructuring; virtue ethics; hedonist ethics; senstiviity; neuroscience and plasticity of the mind; empathy, sense of community; love and attachments, and spirituality. The course focuses on the transformation of the person and the person in society through exercises aligned to academic and scientific concepts. 

This course explores different perspectives of contemporary democracy. The original investigations and categories of political science, those developed by Greek civilization, are proposed as a category of analysis. The course then reviews the construction of democracy; its corruption, and its demagogic implementation in contemporary regime. 

Indigenous peoples are present in the economic participation and cultural wealth of their nations.  A variety of languages can still be heard and seen, and uprisings, such as those of the Zapatistas in Chiapas, can be observed.  This second semester course analyzes the cultural knowledge and original philosophies of each of the most important groups in Mexico: Nahuatl, Zapotec, Mixtec, Purépecha, and Quechua and Aymara of Peru and Bolivia, including a few other Mexican and Latin American philosophers.