Manual del Colombiano or Explanation of Natural Law Caracas, Imprenta de Tomás Antero, 1825 (Fragment)

Abstract

The  Manual del Colombiano or explanation of the Natural Law is a catechism of civic orientation circulating in Caracas from 1825 onwards from 1825 onwards, and which many attribute to Tomás üander. After his intention to create citizens for the construction of the republic after the wars of republic after the wars of Independence, many of its premises lead to the of its premises lead to the domestic household. He attempts to form readers <.on whom the fate of the republic will depend! In the end, it seeks objectives that are accessible in the immediate reality and the distancing of the relationship with the metaphysical. It is a proposal that until now no one had presented in Venezuela from such an anthropological and maten?alist orientation. Because now we do not speak of sins, but of attacks against the organism, against the organism, against the intellectual formation and against the industriousness of a wise person.