UASD School of Philosophy holds Lectio Brevis on identity, political nation, and sovereignty

Santo Domingo.- Under the title “Identity, nation, politics and sovereignty”, the School of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) held this week the Lectio Brevis corresponding to the 2025-2 semester.

The conference was led by Dr. José Flete Morillo, who indicated that Dominican identity is based on shared history, on the awareness of belonging and on the differentiation of what is one's own versus what is foreign.

He recalled that the historical nation, forged with blood and sacrifices, gave rise in 1844 to the political nation organized under the Constitution, whose mission is to guarantee its continuity through education, language, religion, customs and national symbols as nucleating axes.

“The family as the first school of values and the State as guarantor of civic education, have the responsibility to transmit the principles that sustain social cohesion and national sovereignty”, specified Flete Morillo.

He also warned about the contemporary challenges that threaten Dominican identity, the cultural fragmentation expressed in the intention to normalize and celebrate as a great event the use of "creole" in Dominican schools, neighborhoods, and fields.

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“That, without losing sight of, the pressure generated on public services by the massive presence of illegal foreigners and the misrepresentation of history that discredits our symbols and national heroes”.

On his part, the director of the School of Philosophy, Eulogio Silverio, joined Flete Morillo's call to educate from the family, schools, and universities in patriotic values, "because foreign pressures are increasingly latent and powerful on what we have built with so much pain, blood, and sacrifice."

With this and other initiatives, Silverio highlighted, "we seek to connect the School of Philosophy with society, especially with young people, promoting a critical and responsible dialogue not only about the sovereignty of the Dominican nation, but also about the present in progress."