Conservación, desarrollo, aprovechamiento social
y protección de los conocimientos y recursos
tradicionales en México

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Introduction

In the context of morals, the different conceptions of good are expressed through norms, actions, values and beliefs to which human beings are becoming the persons they are. According to a pluralist view, subjects formulate their moral norms in relation to their community values system and the validity of such norms is dependent of those values, that is why in a community there can be valid moral norms that are not valid in others.

If we depart from the fact that people know the world they live in in different ways and relate to it from different values systems learnt throughout their lives, moral norms, as well as the policies that guide their actions, must respond to those particular contexts and necessities.

Problems that are approached

1. Knowledges and their social construction;
2. Culture conservation and autonomy;
3. Equity conditions:
4. Community organization forms;
5. Power structures and resources control

Methodology

To achieve our objectives we have organized seminars that take place every fortnight at the Philosophy Research Institute (IIF) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Participants in the seminar:

Raúl Alcalá, Paulina Camarena, Iskra García, Melina Gastelum, Mari Carmen Gómez, Mónica Gómez, Adalberto de Hoyos, Luz Lazos, Rocío Montané, Adriana Murguía, León Olivé, Ana Rosa Pérez Ransanz, Ricardo Sandoval, Marcela Tovar, Ambrosio Velasco.