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170:, the principal goal of the association was to promote intellectual and artistic culture. The same document outlines the strategies proposed in this effort. The members held public meetings, discussions, and lectures, and published a journal. The fundamental ideology of the Ateneo was a rejection of positivistic influences on education and culture. Instead, the members of the Ateneo thought, the humanities would be responsible for the revitalization of Mexican culture, the group's ultimate concern. Members of the Ateneo such as Alfonso Reyes stressed the importance of classical scholarship and additionally looked to the works of modern 116:, and overall the cultural, ethic and aesthetic values in which Latin America emerged as a political and social reality. Here is important to emphasize that one of the most important characteristics of the Porfiriato years, was its disdain for everything national, Mexican; its fascination for European, French, German or if nothing of these were possible American things and ideas, as the only way for achieving progress. 212: 74:. Through a series of conferences and different cultural efforts they activated a reflexive awareness on education. It was an association of intellectuals, primarily writers and philosophers. Most of the members were indeed young and came to represent a new generation of Mexican scholars, reacting specifically against 345:
Following the ideals of the 1909 Ateneo, this association has become an important nucleus of youth advocacy, recognized by members of civil society, government and other international organizations. Its work is characterized by the development of programs aimed at training young people in different
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In 2009, the group launched the first edition of the Escuela de Formación Humana, a course for young people between the ages of 15 and 21, which included workshops in philosophy, art appreciation, ethics, public speaking, assertiveness and human rights. Following the ideology of the Ateneo de la
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with the participation of young people from the main public and private universities in Mexico City. In 2011, it was consolidated as a non-partisan and non-profit Civil Association, which seeks, since then, the empowerment of young Mexicans in the public, cultural, academic and political life of
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and José Vasconcelos along with the other members of the Youth Athenaeum set up the basis to an ambitious rescue of what is Mexican, and to set what is Latin American as an identity that besides being real, might be possible in the future and mainly non-dependent on the destruction of national,
155:. The second major antecedent to the Ateneo was the Sociedad de Conferencias (Society of Conferences), an inchoate form of the Ateneo de la Juventud who took as its goal to display to the public new ideas of education, poetry, the plastic arts, and philosophy. Finally, in the summer of 1909, 45:, was a Mexican civil association founded on October 28, 1909 with the purpose of working in favor of culture and art, by means of organization public meetings and debates. Born as a response of a generation of young intellectuals who in the decline of the 353:
In 2011, the Ateneo is constituted as a civil association under which the same project continues, made up mainly of students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and other public institutions in Mexico City.
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XV Coloquio Internacional de Cuerpos Académicos y Grupos de Investigación en Análisis organizacional “Educación, Organizaciones e Instituciones en los Procesos de Transformación Nacionales”
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The Ateneo officially convened on the 28 of October, 1909. However, its origins are found in the Revista Savia Moderna (New Modern Journal), originally published in 1906 by
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Juventud of 1909, the School of Human Formation aimed to provide participants with a humanistic education and to complement their academic training in a critical manner.
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showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate
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and which found a solution for the cost of social adjustment problem generated by the processes which change society as industrialization or urbanization.
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and the Athenaeum generation promoted criticism of the philosophical sole vision (positivism and determinism). The Athenaeum generation proposed
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local, Latin-American, as the way to progress, as it happened under the Porfiriato and other experiments such as the
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areas ranging from the dissemination of culture and philosophy, to entrepreneurship and advocacy in public policy.
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The Politics of Philology: Alfonso Reyes and the Invention of the Latin American Literary Tradition.
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Ed. Jorge J. E. Gracia and Mireya Camurati. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
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https://es.scribd.com/document/37645005/Fundamentos-Ateneo-Mexicano-de-La-Juventud-siglo-xxi
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One hundred years after its foundation, Ateneo de la Juventud is refounded under the name
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Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses. Rosemont Publishing and Printing Corp. 2002.
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as the development model of Porfirio Díaz's administration and the group of the
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Martí, Oscar R. "Mexican Philosophy in the 19080's: Possibilities and Limits."
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As stated in the official statutes of the club when, in 1912, it took the name
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organized a series of conferences dealing with the history of
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and its prevalence in the ideology of the regime of Dictator
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Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, 2001.
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Alfonso Reyes en la generación del ateneo de la juventud.
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Fundamentos del Ateneo Mexicano de la Juventud Siglo XXI
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Index

Ateneo de la Juventud
Spanish
rule of President Porfirio Díaz
determinism
mechanism
Comtian
Spencerian
positivism
científicos
positivism
Porfirio Diaz
humanities
Mexican education system
biological determinism
Justo Sierra
José Vasconcelos
academic freedom
freedom of thought
Antonio Caso
Alfonso Reyes
Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Ricardo Gomez Rebelo
Coronelismo
Alfonso Cravioto
Luís Castillo Ledón
Antonio Caso
Positivism
continental philosophers
Kant
Schopenhauer

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