When we were attending college, my friend Alfredo told me about a conference he had attended where the speaker put the legend that is the title of this post.
I do not remember well what was the area of the talk he attended, perhaps it was physics, astronomy or mathematics, which was the type of conference that we liked to attend, or perhaps it could have even been about biology, although physics students did not attend a lot to biology talks.
Alfredo told me that everyone in the public wondered who this Mexican philosopher Jiménez was, because the name was not familiar to anybody.
When people talk about Mexican philosophers, some known names arise closely linked to education such as Gabino Barreda who was a positivist philosopher at the end of the 19th century, or José Vasconcelos who created the motto of the National Autonomous University of Mexico "For my race, the spirit shall speak". Alternatively, people can think in names of prominent academics such as Alfonso Reyes, who was nominated several times for the Literature Nobel Prize but due to the currents of thought in the country, Mexican academics un supported him to obtain it.
However, J. A. Jiménez is a philosopher who emerged from the people and wrote for the people.
