Can you believe in humanity today? it is a question from Carlos Eduardo Maldonado regarding the First Congress of the Humanities: “Thinking the humanities”, held in October 2012 at Universidad santo Tomás, Bogotá. The echo of the question resonates when it is considered that the fundamental human decisions are not made by the human sciences, but by institutions. The reality of the technocratic determinations can be applied everywhere. However, as proposed by the suggestive paper by professor Maldonado: “What does it mean to believe in human beings?”, which opens the issue 82 of the Analisis journal, realism also means the failure of faith and hope. The question of what it means to believe in human beings is, without doubt, the main problem of the humanities in liquid and fuzzy times, in which the one-dimensional world order described by Marcuse in the eighties is strongly imposed, and that today seems to be blind and skeptical when acknowledging a more diverse, plural and different world.