Abstract

PONCE LEON, Fernando. Affections and the way of doing uncultured philosophy. Escritos - Fac. Filos. Let. Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.47, pp.343-367. ISSN 0120-1263.

This paper aims to exhibit the role played by affections in the way of philosophizing in Latin America. In order to achieve such an aim, the paper focuses on the reflections of a collective of philosophers that calls itself Equipo Jesuita de Reflexión Filosófica de América Latina, active since 1981. works dating from its early stages are used in the following paper. In those works the collective aimed to reflect specifically on a Latin American philosophy of their own. This project is called "uncultured philosophy" (filosofía inculturada in Spanish). The paper, therefore, intends to demonstrate that the reflections made by this collective address both the comprehensive act of philosophizing as the theoretical philosophical thought. In the first sense, it proposes a "deontology of the Latin American philosopher", whose method includes as one of the most important steps "letting being affected" by the reality according to the principle of sympathy, which will produce other sentiments or affections towards reality as a frame to philosophize. However, the collective does not make clear the relation between affections and commitment, i.e., what comes in first place.

Keywords : Affections; Sentiments; Philosophical Method; Latin American Philosophy.

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