No. 34 (2018): Núm. 34 (2018) julio-diciembre 2018 Lógoi. Revista de Filosofía.

Simón Narciso Rodríguez (Caracas-Venezuela, 1769, Amotape-Peru, 1854) was a philosopher, writer, politician and educator whose work is the object of reflection of the group of articles that make up this new issue of Lógoi. Philosophy Magazine. This famous American from the 18th and 19th centuries, a thinker of great originality for some, Voltairean or emulator of Rousseau, for others, although more (un)known to Others, like the “Master of Bolívar”, had a hectic existence, hit by hardships. economic and, in his own words, by the contempt of his countrymen. He traveled through America and Europe, he lived for more than two decades in the Old Continent and returned to the New attracted by the opportunity to serve with his knowledge and his pen the cause of consolidation of freedom in the new Latin American republics. Some republics whose uncertain destinies tormented him and which therefore prompted him to verify and reflect on the state of their customs, their political systems, economic and its serious social problems. The bulk of Simón Rodríguez's writings, as the careful reader can verify, They have their reflective gaze on how to “found the Spanish American republics” that They have been “established” by force and military power. For Samuel Robinson, another name that Rodríguez used for many years, the time that follows the armistice is that of work of thought. A work that must focus on observing, meditating and reflecting on American societies to then propose courses of action in the political, economic and social. The issue of the day, argues Rodríguez, is the establishment of civil liberty, a stage superiority of political independence achieved in the stage of revolutions Hispanic Americans.