The constitutive of the other as a configuration of the Latin American subject
Abstract
The article focuses on the relevance of the constitutive Other in shaping the Latin American subject from the perspective of the philosophy of liberation. Its objective is to reflect on how alterity nourishes the identity and praxis of the Latin American subject. Hermeneutics is used as an interpretative methodology to analyze key texts, especially those of Enrique Dussel. Among the results, fundamental categories of the Other are identified: a subject of everyday life, open to the world, with an existential stance, unfinished, and free to choose. These categories reveal that the Latin American subject is configured within finitude and through the deliberation of its possibilities. It concludes that freedom is essential for the subject to select among its potentialities and move toward a “not yet” in constant construction.
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