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El 8 de junio de 2004 falleció Leopoldo Zea, maestro y amigo, durante casi cuatro décadas, de quien escribe estas líneas. Desde aquel día, recuerdo nítidamente, en que participé en la clase inaugural de su seminario de posgrado sobre la historia de las ideas en América Latina en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM, Zea personificó el gran impulso a los estudios latinoamericanos durante la segunda parte del siglo XX, tanto en Latinoamérica como en el mundo entero. Fue el historiador, el filósofo y el ideólogo de América Latina, dedicando toda su vida a lo que consideró como su misión de concientización y liberación; antes de su muerte, pidió que sus cenizas fueran esparcidas por el continente latinoamericano.

Writings by Z. Brzezinski on liberty & equality in the United States are examined. Brzezinski has asserted that the world seems hostile to the values of liberty & equality. Liberty in a situation of inequality, however, results in the domination of some over others. Brzezinski does not mention the philosophy of K. Marx & F. Hegel regarding the relationship between liberty & equality. While 'the libertarian project' of the United States has also been an egalitarian project, equality has remained an unrealized ideal. The ideal of liberty depends for its realization upon the concomitant ideal of equality. Questioned is whether the United States version of liberty, imposed on countries not equal to the United States, is useful to those countries, or merely serves to justify United States intervention to defend the liberty of an elite; eg, for the people of Latin America, libertarian ideals have only produced new forms of dependence & new limitations on liberty. Latin America needs to develop an awareness of its dependence & the necessity to terminate that dependence. Following the philosophy of S. Bolivar & J. Marti, this means working for a society capable of treating all its members as equal & equally free. S. Whittle.