Crisis y surgimiento de la filosofía latinoamericana: el cuestionamiento de A. Salazar Bondy

Abstract

This article states that the liberation philosophy, which started during the seventies and was current in Latin America in the last century until the middle nineties arose from the 1968 theoretical questioning of the Peruvian philosopher Augusto Salazar Bondy. Starting from the theory of dependence and from the history of ideas, Salazar pointed out the lack of identity, originality and authenticity in the region’s philosophy. He was, however, philosophically dependent on conscience as the subject of the philosophical and epistemological process. Thus, the validity of Salazar’s questioning reflected the mirror quality of conscience. Liberation philosophy became exhausted by the crisis of conscience.