Towards the dignified life: the colonial situation and the possibilities for liberation from the Latin American philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3241393Keywords:
Latin American philosophy, epistemology from the South, counter-hegemonyAbstract
In the present paper, we intend to make a review of the most relevant ideas of some contemporary Latin American philosophers: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Arturo Roig, Raúl Fornet Betancourt y Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. There is an emergency, in the communities oppressed by the colonial mentality, to produce and claim an epistemology from the margins, we mean, to bet for a counter-he- gemonic globalization, that returns us our stolen dignity since 1492. The possibility of creating a philosophy from our situation of colonized, is presented as a political program by the philosophy of liberation, and as a manifestation of the dignified life for Latin American people.
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