Abstract
Abstract
This paper explores the meaning of liberty in the thinking of Manuela Sáenz. Although Sáenz is not a philosopher in the canonical sense, the traces of political and social thought in her ideas are evident. In the context of the nineteenth-century Latin American wars of independence and the rise of the
Patria Grande
(Great Homeland), Manuela Sáenz expresses a practical notion of liberty, an ideal that underlies her revolutionary action and her life in exile. Fragments and clues from her diaries and correspondence were used to infer that, according to Sáenz, action is the only successful means by which liberty can be achieved.