Abstract

DUSSEL, Enrique. A New Age in the History of Philosophy: World Dialog Among Philosophical Traditions. Utopìa y Praxis Latinoamericana [online]. 2009, vol.14, n.45, pp.31-44. ISSN 1315-5216.

This paper supports the following theses: 1. It is necessary to affirm that all humanity has always expressed certain “core universal problems” that are present in all cultures. 2. The rational responses to these “core problems” first acquire the form of mythical narratives. 3. The formulation of categorical philosophical discourses is a subsequent development in human rationality that does not negate all mythical narratives. These philosophical discourses have arisen in all the great urban Neolithic cultures (even if only on a very beginning level). 4. Modern European philosophy confused its economic and political domination of culture and the crises derived from other regional philosophies with a Eurocentric pretention to universality, which must be questioned. 5. In any case, there are formal, universal aspects on which all regional philosophies can coincide and which respond to the “core problems” on an abstract level. 6. All of this impels us to enter a new age of inter-philosophical dialogue, respectful of differences and open to learning from the useful discoveries of other traditions. 7. A new philosophical project must be developed that, going beyond Eurocentric philosophical modernity, tries to shape a global, trans-modern pluriverse, drawing upon   the development of its own resources of peripheral, subaltern, post-colonial philosophies that have been “discarded” by modernity.

Keywords : history of philosophy; dialogue; traditions; modernity.