EL HUMANISMO COMO VIRTUD

Abstract

Universities are born as a palpable expression of Humanism. That is why, in the conception of the statutes of (Bologna; Oxford; Cambridge; Salamanca; Padua; Paris) between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, this innovation is evident, that the founders managed to hide it under the guise of repetition. We refer to the ON'S of humanism, the one that spread in the Middle Ages, where copying was the only system of circulating ideas. And, that belonging to everyone is because it was human, perennially human.

Supported by phenomenology, with Husserl's call to "go back to the beginning", but not as a starting from scratch, but as a rethinking of both Humanism, and Universities - immersed in this idea of consumers (Bauman) -; the university has the challenge of facing the being of society.

The virtues do not evolve, change or adapt. They are attached to the being. That they are interpreted differently over time by that immense range of cultures, does not mean in itself that they have evolved or changed; rather, they are a part of the concentric circle that Gadamer describes to us in Truth and Method; through it he manifests to us how the human being approaches reality and, in that momentum to the truth.