Darío Botero

In 1960, he participated with other Colombian intellectuals and professionals, including Camilo Torres, Orlando Fals Borda, Eduardo Umaña Luna, María Cristina Salazar, Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda, Carlos Escalante, and Tomás Ducay, in the foundation of the first Faculty of Sociology in Latin America.

[4] He participated in the Postgraduate Kolloquium with Professor Jürgen Habermas, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany in 1983 and 1984.

The magazine featured essays by novelist Rafael Humberto Moreno Durán, philosopher Iván Soll, professor Mario Bettati, Germán Andrés Molina Garrido, Jesús Martín Barbero, among other renowned authors in Latin America and the world.

At the end of his life, he developed an original philosophical project that he called Cosmic Vitalism,[8] which seeks to think about the world from a Latin American perspective.

[6][1] After a general theoretical development and an examination of the great conceptions of nature, he concludes with an environmental theory that seeks to discipline citizen behavior towards nature and outlines a concrete humanism based on transnature and not anthropology, as a response to the critics of the humanism of Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault.

For the first time, a Colombian philosopher proposes from Latin America to the world, a thought that promotes the defense of life , seeking a mental balance that allows creating men and women with the capacity to critically assume history , culture and defense of our own identity . This proposal is called Cosmic Vitalism . [ 2 ]
Orlando Fals Borda Building - Faculty of Sociology of the National University of Colombia . Darío Botero was one of the co-founders of this faculty, the first of sociology in Latin America . [ 4 ]