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The work of Father Pedro José Márquez has been little studied. The most accessible histories and studies of Novohispano thought do not include it, although there has nonetheless been a memory and criticism of the "mexican doctor". Aesthetics is understood, in general and properly speaking, the branch of philosophy that focuses on the study of (own) sensibility, which, guided by the intellect, is the device with which beauty is captured. So the Aesthetics is, in the first place, philosophy of the sensibility and philosophy of beauty. But the Aesthetic connects with the arts. So, Aesthetics, secondly, is philosophy of art. This is the path that Father Pedro José Márquez followed. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the Jesuit Father's Aesthetics, especially in his speech entitled On the beautiful in general, is a philosophy of sensibility, beauty and art. The theoretical and practical resources provided by Analogical Hermeneutics will be taken advantage of. This work will be divided into two parts. In the first, the contexts of On the beautiful in general are presented; and, in the second, the Aesthetics of the Jesuit father will be treated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From three particular works created in Latin America, the article proposes that the contribution of art for the construction of a more democratic culture lies in the work of art that opens the experience of memory as an origin from and by means of which things historical to us and speak to us. For this, the paper addresses works that propose the crisis of the modern museum in relation to history and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]