LA AMÉRICA “DESCUBIERTA” Y EL FILÓSOFO EQUIVOCADO

Abstract

In the framework of the commemoration of the Bicentennial of the libertarian struggles of the Ecuadorian nation, the present work analyzes, first of all, the conflictive significance of the so-called discovery of America, the conquest and colonization, the situation that arose as a result of these processes, to the native peoples, both of Hispanic America or Latin America, the Caribbean and North America, as well as the Afro-descendant population. It raises the differences between the colonizations periods of North America and South America, due to the times, centuries: XV-XVI and between XVII-XVIII, which mark various European ideological periods and impact in different ways in other latitudes. The colonizers in each case are reviewed: Spanish and Portuguese, in South America and, in part, the Caribbean; Anglo-Saxons in North America and French to a lesser degree. The problem of racism, misogyny, among other cruel European applications of conquest and colonization are also exposed. At the same time, the work criticizes the interpretations of various European encyclopedias on these processes that, likewise, unleashed poverty in the populations.

Second, the negative influence of the prestigious philosopher Hegel on the European conception of America and its culture is exposed, manifested, up to the present, in the encyclopedias.