Influencias en la tesis sobre la degeneración de la raza de Miguel Jiménez López

Abstract

The present paper seeks to establish one relation between the theses over degeneration of the race by the doctor and Colombian conservator politician Miguel Jiménez López, the theory of degeneration by Agustin Morel and the social theory by Herbert Spencer. On this way, I pretend argued that Jiménez López would have read and reinterpreted both foreign authors with the objective of argued his controversial theses, using some supposed from the European theories to prove his idea that existed a degenerative state in the Colombian population. To achieve the goal, I realize a contrast with the texts of the Europeans reviewed in original language and the argument of the Colombian doctor.  Moreover, I proposed that the complexity of the spencerian notion of evolution enable joint the preoccupation about the progress with the concept of degeneration.