The self and the other

• Latin American essay: Non conclusive, societal issues, connection with history, free and personal matter.
• European treatise: Logical order, scientific data, conclusive.
• Interculturality: Something occurring between different cultures.
• Multiculturality: Various cultural groups existing independently from one another.
• The self: The existence of the individual as an irreducible unit. Superiority.

  -          Nature as a resource to exploit.

  -          Linear conception of time.

  -          Cartesian self, material goods and scientific development.
• The other: The unknown, feared. Subjugation.

  -          Returning to harmony with nature.

  -          Loss of identity = step back.

  -          Cyclical conception of time.
• Alterity: Don’t understanding conscious self. Loss of interest.
• -          Renaissance: Res extensa (Europe), colonial education (LA)

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• -          Enlightment: Rene Descartes (Europe), thinkers influenced by Europe. (LA)