Simón Bolívar’s modern political virtue

• In Event: JSS 9
  In JSS Session: Live Ideas in the History of Political Thought

Brief Overview

This paper discusses how Simon Bolivar tailored European political philosophy for a Latin American context. In particular, it explores how Bolivar perceived political virtue as a way of equalizing the heterogeneous society of Venezuela.

Author

• Alejandro Castrillon, University of Notre Dame