The ego conquered as the beginning of modernity

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate the elements that characterize the ‘ego conquiro’, that is, a ‘pre-modern’ subject. The analysis is done from the fact of the conquest of America by Europeans. The objective of the conquest is to acquire territories, and at the same time, colonize the indigenous of America not only physically, but ideologically. This theme corresponds to one of the aspects thatmake up the philosophy of the liberation of Enrique Dussel.

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the conquiro ego constitution is the starting point, the beginning of the process of constituting the victimizer in the subject. It is of vital importance, in order to address the liberation of the victim, to talk about how the perpetrator becomes a subject from the dialectic of domination. The rationality of the ego conquiro generates practices that lead to the generation of victims. The article will be developed in four parts. The firstexplains what the conquiro ego constitution process consists of. The second one makes reference, as a consequence of this process, to the dialectical relation discoveryconcealment of the other that forces us to ask ourselves about the dialectic rationality-irrationality. The third raises the problem of colonization and Eurocentrism as elements of ego conquiro. Finally, the Conclusion Will collect the affirmations worked on and focus on the criticism of Enrique Dussel’s statement: “the ego conquiro is the beginning of modernity.

TEORÍA Y PRAXIS Year 16, No.32, January-May 2018, pp.13-27