Philosophical normalization or the naturalization of philosophical coloniality: considerations from intercultural philosophy

Abstract

The markedly rational character that the Eurocentric paradigm attributes to Western philosophy legitimizes the marginalization of any form of thought that does not fit the archetype that represents the philosophical tradition that began in classical Greece, thus ruling out any eventual contribution from Eastern, African and Americans. Within the latter, the philosophical invisibility of the Mapuche people finds as an additional factor the systematic alteration of its image that Chilean literature carried out between the 16th and 20th centuries, denying, among other features, precisely its reflective capacity. In this way, despite not forming a unitary group as such, the identification of moral concepts that could –in a general way– shape Mapuche ethical thought requires a distance from Eurocentrism, both its influence on epistemology and in the notion of philosophy that it has developed.