Danilo Cruz Velez

Danilo Cruz Vélez (Philadelphia, Caldas, 1920 - Bogotá, December 10, 2008), was a Colombian philosopher.

Biography

He completed university studies in Bogotá and Freiburg (Germany). He then taught at the National University of Colombia and at the Universidad de los Andes until 1972, where he is recognized as one of the most eminent philosophers of his country.

His philosophy addresses the problems of philosophical Anthropology, Cultural Philosophy and Metaphysics, addressing authors such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich von Schiller and Martin Heidegger. He also introduced modern Phenomenology and analyzed Colombia's philosophical past within the framework of reflective discipline, vindicating the right of the American peoples to be deliberative within the broad framework of Western thought, bringing it closer to Francisco Romero.

He has contributed to philosophical magazines such as Latinoamericana de Filosofía and Correo de los Andes. She founded with Rafael Carrillo the Institute of Philosophy of the National University and is a member of the European Society of Culture and the Argentine Academy of Sciences.

He died on Wednesday, December 10, 2008, the victim of pneumonia.

Works

• New Image of Man and Culture (1948)
• Unsubscribed philosophy: from Husserl to Heidegger (1970)
  • The Man and the Being Archived on August 19, 2006 at Wayback Machine. Chapter Philosophy... about Martin Heidegger
• Nietzscheana (1972)
• The Myth of the Philosopher King: Plato, Marx and Heidegger
• Tabula Rasa (1991)
• The time of the crisis. Talks with Danilo Cruz Vélez.
• The Mystery of Language (1995):

The Mystery of Language

The Mystery of Language (1995) is an analysis of language from the perspective of the Philosophy of Language, applied to the analysis of Colombian poetry in the Spanish-American context. Additionally, in a second part, the author addresses the crisis of the current world and its reflection in Russian literature on the nihilism of Turgeniev and Dostoevsky, the problem of gigantism in Colombian and Latin American cities and the disappearance of the countryside, the ethics of Max Scheler and his critique of Pope John Paul II, an analysis of Sartre's contribution to literature and philosophy, and a brief introduction to Heidegger's basic approaches in Being and Time and Contribution to the History of Philosophy, where he leaves open the need to overcome the crisis.