Por qué importa la filosofía

In this necessary and insightful essay, Carlos Peña critically takes charge of the contempt to which, for some time now, philosophy has been the object. Based on accusations of waste and uselessness, it has been progressively displaced from educational plans in favor of teaching focused on the technical and useful. That is why the author wonders if the teaching of philosophy today lacks justification and meaning. There is no better way to illustrate the importance of philosophy, says Peña, than to introduce the reader to the type of reflection that it carries out. Using illustrative anecdotes and some of the most important ideas of the 20th century -formulated by Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Ortega-, this essay explains how philosophy looks at the structure of human life to finally discover that she is a reality that interprets itself. In other words, if philosophy cannot do anything, perhaps it can do something with us.