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published on September 23, 2025
Ambrosio Velasco G¨®mez
https://doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev2025922163
Jos¨¦ Mar¨ªa Vigil¡¯s Republican Humanist Critique of Authoritarian Positivist Liberalism
Jos¨¦ Mar¨ªa Vigil is one of the most radical and critical Mexican republican liberals of the nineteenth century. Heir of a Mexican republican humanist tradition, he questioned the project of a homogeneous nation, vindicated Mexico¡¯s multicultural identity, criticized positivist philosophies as the foundation of the authoritarian state and defended the republican principles of the Mexican Constitution of 1857, in opposition to the scientific and conservative liberalism promoted mainly by Justo Sierra. His work encompasses epistemology, political philosophy, literary criticism and Mexican history. All his work constitutes a republican humanism that influenced the Mexican Revolution of 1910.