Problematizing technology in Mexico: Ramos, Lombardo and Zea

Abstract

This article aims to be the first step in a genealogy of how the problem of technology has been thought of and posed in the Mexican philosophical exercise of the 20th century. The text analyzes and problematizes the way in which the technological question has been discursively elaborated by three Mexican thinkers of the 20th century: Samuel Ramos, Vicente Lombardo Toledano and Leopoldo Zea. The aim is to evaluate the meanings and assessments that these three thinkers give to the technical and technological in the texts and in the ways in which they approached them. This article seeks to show how in these three Mexican philosophers the technological question has been treated until now as an accessory topic to questions that they value as real philosophical problems. It will be shown that this allows to glimpse some reasons why the area of philosophy of technology does not exist yet in the institutional exercise of Mexican philosophy.