A foundational narration for a chilean philosophical anthopology: Nicolas Palacios's chilean race

Authors

  • Miguel Alvarado, Dr. Universidad de Playa Ancha
  • Héctor Fernández, Dr. Universidad de Playa Ancha

Abstract

This article argues that Palacios proposes the essential elements for a systematical philosophical anthropology, under the influence of his time, mainly evolutionism and racism, but different while trying to give a wide perspective of racial mix as the result of cultural contamination by contact and the sociocultural mutation as a result. Raza Chilena is a book that contains a holistic hypothesis that link all forms of science, history, biology, sociology, anthropology and linguistics available in the 19th century Chile.    

Keywords:

philosophical anthropology, racism, myth, racist speech, Chilean identity