Fundamentación filosofica del pensamiento indígena

Abstract

With this research we seek to do justice to indigenous philosophical thinking, since it is valuable that in this context in which the proposal of a research assistant is presented, the bibliographic context and the categories of indigenous thought included as a philosophical commitment are investigated, with the aim of supporting this thesis that has been studied since at least 1927 by academics from different parts of the world: Paul Radin (1927), Miguel León Portilla (1951), Josef Estermann (1998), and Mario Mejía Huamán (2012) , because his research focuses on the fundamental issues of indigenous thought from the horizon of understanding philosophy. In addition, in Latin America this contribution for studies that advances Latin American philosophy is valuable since it could be a first step in the systematization of the advances in this field.

The TLAMATINIME research group of the Santo Tomás University leads the research projects in Latin American ontology, which are deeply related to the present research assistance, since their interests for the constitution of a Latin American ontology, allow to appreciate the contributions of indigenous thought, and that the understanding of ancestral wisdom can be made possible as a possible indigenous philosophy. In this group, constituted by philosophers from Argentina, Colombia and Peru, progress has been made in the intercultural dialogue that includes indigenous and popular communities, so having concretized this research assistance is one of the first achievements made possible and made, whose progress will enrich the investigative work of said group.