Resumen

FERREIRA GONCALVES, Arlindo. The Human Person as Protagonist of “Ethical History” in the Philosophy of María Zambrano. Utopìa y Praxis Latinoamericana [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.37, pp.69-77. ISSN 1315-5216.

This article attempts to recover the arguments of Spanish philosopher María Zambrano, particularly from works expounding her thoughts regarding the notion of person, and to demonstrate how such a reflection engenders the constitution of the idea of history for western man, characterized by an ethical sense of society and by criticism of the power of the individual that is covered up by the State. In the analysis, the tragedy of the West is emphasized, and this is done through two pairs of contrary ideas: individual/person and mass/people. The people as well as the people are chosen as the protagonist of an ethical history.

Palabras clave : Zambrano; ethics; person; history.