| Sumario: | The novohispanic jesuit Andrés de Guevara y Basoazábal (1748-1801) wrote the Institutionum elementarium philosophiae, where he offers a desirable curriculum for the mexican youth that may include empirical modern science, virtuous politics and human wisdom. Through a comparative translation from latin, this paper outlines Guevara biographically and, with the translation of some relevant passages, aims to: 1) show the reception of modern science according to the aristotelian elements Guevara has, 2) to show the reception of modern science from the aristotelian elements that Guevara had, and 3) demonstrate that modernity and aristotelian tradition are complementary; and what is to be reformed is decrepit scholastics. It is concluded that through the proemium De vicissitudinibus Guevara shows that the Mexican reception of modernity comes from an aristotelian thought.
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