Editorial

Editorial

The seventeenth century is the moment of hatching of a thought that began to take shape two or three centuries earlier: liberal thought. As a fundamental part of that thought that becomes an integral part of the Western world, we find the idea of ​​Democracy, that democracy that sees the light in the French revolution linked to the Republic and to the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. This idea of ​​democracy whose fundamental parts are Equality, Freedom and Justice for all is part of the imaginary with which we grow and of the discourse that the West handles.

The idea of ​​democracy is an idea of ​​the Greek world, and specifically of the Athenian world, in which all citizens had the right to listen, to be heard, and of course to choose and be elected in the agora. I emphasize the all, for this was the idea of ​​the Hellenistic world to which I refer: all. This idea has been concretized in this sense in our country, we have an Athenian democracy. All those who can be in the agora (in the public forum) have rights as citizens. In ancient Greece the agora could only be attended by adult men, nobles, merchants, warriors and priests, that is to say all. Of course there could not be women, peasants, ilotas (the populace as they would say now) and slaves, that is to say the majority of the population - like now.

At the time of the establishment of the French Republic, women (who actively participated in the revolution) asked to be included in the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, with the results in the guillotine that we know. The arrival of the revolution meant a political change, inspired by certain economic and social facts and a discourse was created to sustain and maintain that produced change, a political discourse that has been fundamental in the Western world and in our country, which is proud of having the "oldest" democracy in Latin America.