The Intercultural Challenge of Philosophy

Learning to Dialogue in a Plural Key

Abstract

In today’s highly globalized world, philosophy confronts a whole series of different intercultural challenges with which it must deal if it is to keep up with the times. The objective of this article, therefore, is to rethink and problematize the epistemic and praxeological assumptions of the ways in which we can confront these challenges; a fundamental question in, and for, intercultural philosophy, understood as an integral aperture towards a dialogue among the many voices of philosophy, articulated from the plurality of cultures. This opening demands adopting an intercultural attitude in the tasks of philosophy, one that must translate not only into efforts to listen to the Other, but also into raising consciousness of the particularity of cultural horizons and, with this, of the inevitable centrism of one’s own thought.