With the centenary celebrations of the Ateneo de la Juventud, you will hear words like "beauty" and "humanity" of the same more or less abstract that were laid a century ago. Be discussed of referrals (direct or not) that this group had in our intellectual tradition, as the biased defense of "academic freedom", or "battle" that resulted in the autonomy given to the right university and allowed the teachers at the Autonomous University of Mexico, fascists like Jesus Guiza y Acevedo, anxious to stop the threat of "historical materialism." And explain again how Prospero submitted the forces of nature and triumphed over the destructive instincts of liberty gave Caliban and Ariel, the spirit is strengthened by the kindness and has served as a symbol for youth direct their projects. But what approach to take if one is on the side of Caliban, the cannibal who takes a bite at the head of European rationality. How is that one should determine who follow the ideology, if it is worth and if anyone cares to take position on a closed discussion and perhaps never did, for nothing more distant than seeking to challenge the "Athens" which gave feathers as Alfonso Reyes, Enrique González Martínez, Rafael López and Pedro Henríquez Ureña and Mexico ranked among the world like a beautiful flower in the center of Western culture, drinking the sap of deeper roots Greek and Dionysian spirit whose tasting almost dried flower and fruit (or transform them into: delirium creative!), but fortunately won the good, and Hellenism was sterilized for use as a salutary teaching destined to nurture the spirituality inoculated in the youth that started to be educated in "the humanities" in the Huerta. A small group of people so active tense and thrived and lived to be high culture that is so necessary! and thus became indispensable to the elite that was (paraphrase Henríquez Ureña), a small group acted to build, but build in, if you can say so, since the building was largely internal. Or is that it was outside? Is it that their efforts are overflowed and created "something" we can call it somehow? As it is, paradoxically, was freedom inside and worked in secret, within the self of each of its members to produce artistic expression to emerge as a fruit substance which occurs when the sending station operated by the fruit. Something broke in, in the maturation of a personal work which, in turn, sculpted the interior of each of these artists dedicated to building their own values \u200b\u200band passionately follow their moral creations (Hence its aesthetic is firmly underpinned his Ethics). Paradoxically, the Ateneo de la Juventud was a group that saw the need to agree politically to see your site as an elite, while the internal tension gave way to reveal individuals. Within that "empirical I" subject to the laws of nature was another T immaterial ", safe from the contingency of the world (Isaiah Berlin). By removing this weak shell with the "empirical I" covers the deep personality of the artist discovers a true ideal, worked in solitude. Idealism aside, it must be picked up, thrown the world to rub him and know what a load of hidden truth. Of aesthetic truth, of course. And that work will be presented to generation that wants to question it, if you lose all infallibility into question. All this is not one truth, just something that I represent and to explain why you should "save" (not applicable to me or let me be the one to "save" anything) that aesthetic ideal constructed by each these artists gathered for a hundred years in the Ateneo de la Juventud.
