Eurocentrism, philosophy and the invisibility of Mapuche ethical thought

Abstract

This article argues that the canon and the Western philosophical tradition continue to be the dominant conception in the field of secondary and university education. This situation has allowed them to be imposed and perpetuated historically in the Latin American academy, thus reaffirming the colonial condition of philosophical work and, consequently, influencing discourses, practices and institutions. In this direction, the first section proposes a critical reflection about the concept of philosophical normality and its projections in Latin American philosophizing and in the teaching of philosophy. In the second section, the naturalization of the coloniality implied in the acceptance of philosophical normality, in terms of the imposition of cultural and epistemic Eurocentrism, in the processes of the current teaching of philosophy, is problematized. This brief journey will finally show that the exclusion and privilege of European philosophizing are factors that limit the possibility of granting validity and legitimacy to other forms of thought.