Signifying contemporary knowledge well

Abstract

Objective: To propose an epistemology that generates a new science and education from the frontier of knowledge of the South. Methodology: Theoretical analysis-synthesis. Results: From the approach of a primordial philosophy, the concept of knowledge and its types, including scientific knowledge, are analyzed. Then, current knowledge is characterized, in which there is a struggle against the historical tendency of positivism from the proposal of new epistemologies located in the cognitive frontier of the time and emerged in the cultural space of the South. The value of philosophy, reviled by positivist and neoliberal thought, is vindicated; a philosophy that promotes a better way of signifying reality, both for its ethical sense and for the need to have a better conceptualization of science. We advocate a broader concept of education than the merely scholastic one, which excludes knowledge for life, creating idologies, fetishizations and blinding mystifications that enhance the various ills and ailments of our time. Conclusion: Overcoming alienation and its evils means creating a renewed freedom and promoting greater rationality, since it is urgent to obtain benefits in the face of the advances of barbarism, tangible in too many areas of today's world.