Latin American Thought examines the relationship between philosophy
and rationality in Latin American thought, the nature of justice,
human rights, and cultural identity, and other questions that have
concerned Latin American thinkers from the colonial period to the
present day. From the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas to the present day,
reveals the assembly of interesting philosophical arguments offered
by Latin Americans. Nuccetelli traces Latin American thought
through questions concerning rationality, gender discrimination,
justice, human rights, reparation for historically dispossessed
peoples, and relativism vs. universalism - all matters of
continuing concern in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking parts of the
world . Amongst issues of heated controversy from the early
twentieth century to the present, also explores how Latin Americans
and their descendants abroad think of their own cultural identity,
of US mass-culture and philosophy, and of the vexing problem of
which name, if any, to use when referring to this exceedingly
diverse ethnic group. Many of the philosophical questions raised by
Latin American thinkers are problems that have concerned
philosophers at different times and in different places throughout
the Western tradition. But in fact the issues are not altogether
the same - for they have been adapted to capture problems presented
by new circumstances, and Latin Americans have sought resolutions
in ways that are indeed novel. This book explains how
well-established philosophical traditions gave rise in the "New
World" to a distinctive manner of thinking. There was no clean
sweep of the past and an attempt to start over: rather, Latin
American thinkers mostly welcomed European ideas at whatever pace
such traditions happened to arrive. It is then no surprise that,
for instance, Scholasticism became the accepted view under Spanish
rule, and began to lose its grip only when the rulers did. But what
does seem surprising is the radical way in which those traditions
were transformed to account for problems that, though familiar,
were now seen intake light of new circumstances. A distinctive
Latin American way of thinking about such problems emerged from the
project of "recycling" European philosophical traditions, some of
which were already obsolete in Europe at the time their transplant
took place. Thus theories commonly taken to be incompatible within
Western traditions in philosophy were absorbed by Latin American
thought-- and, in their newly acquired forms, such theories are
even now at the basis of proposed solutions to many practical and
philosophical problems. The book explores that recycling process.
Above all, it aims to determine whether the various cultures that
met in the "New World" could now be said to have come to share a
common identity. This is in fact an issue which has preoccupied
Latin Americans since at least the beginning of the 19th century,
when their countries won their independence. But, in connection
with this, it is also important to ask how Latin Americans have
thought about the relationship between philosophy and rationality,
and about other issues belonging to the major areas of philosophy
such as epistemology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy,
as well their application to vital social issues, including
education and the emancipation of women. These are all taken up by
the author, who pays special attention to questions of gender
discrimination, justice, human rights, reparation for historically
dispossessed peoples, and the role of education-- all matters of
continuing concern in Latin American thought, from its earliest
stirrings to the present day.
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