Dussel´s Theological Metaphors

Abstract

Enrique Dussel's philosophy cannot be understood without the incorporation of concepts extracted from Semitic narrative, what we will call, paraphrasing Dussel himself, theological metaphors. Our author warns that with such concepts it is possible to make an explicit philosophy, not a theology, recovering the vitality of the symbolism of the ethical-mythical core of popular traditions. This allows him to develop a critical philosophy from the Latin American otherness and the peoples of the South, with which he develops an original philosophy, foreign to philosophical colonialism, promoter of decolonization, which gives it a disruptive character. At the same time, it exhibits the Hellenocentric and Eurocentric limits of hegemonic philosophy in the West. The idea of liberation itself is recovered from Semitic mythology, with which he understood the need to build a thought incardinated with the social and political reality of his time, and to assume commitment to social movements as a natural part of his philosophical thinking.