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achievement, an expression of the synthesis made possible by Arab empire.
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dom. By the end of the twelfth century most of Aristotle was available in Latin,
many of the works having come by this route. The admiration and repute of Arab
writers among Christian scholars was a recognition of its importance. Of the wor
ks of Al-Kindi, one of the greatest of Arab philosophers, more survive in Latin
than in Arabic, while Dante paid Ibn-Sina (Avicenna in Europe) and Averroes the
compliment of placing them in limbo (together withecognize now the
Amerindian, colonial world, of the "inward land"; she negates a millenary
history. In the same line we ought to situate Edmundo O'Gorman, who spoke
of the "dis-covery" of 1492 as the "invention of America" by Western
culture - not noticing the interpretation of the "discovery" by the indigenous
as an "invasion" of Cemanahuac ("the whole world" in Aztec)42 -; or
Alberto Caturelli43, where the American is "to be a brute", without history,
the "immature,,44.

periphery. Hitler is not the same thing as Adenauer, but Getulio Vargas or Carde
nas are not
simply Hitler, and Frondizi or Chilean Christian Democracy are not simply Adenau
er.
Therefore, Astrada is not Heidegger (although he has a lot of him), and Romero d
oes not
have their philosophical-political analogue in Europe.
37 The Argentinian "gaucho" [cowboy], like the Colombian or Venezuelan "\Ianero"
, is the
prototype of the "barbarian" for Sarmiento. Astrada recuperates this prototype i
n its
positivity.
38 El sentimiento de lo humano en America, 1950.
39 America como problema, 1959.
40 "Lugones y el ser americano", 1964.
41 El pecado original de America, 1954.
42 La invenci6n de America, 1958. See my critic in my work, Dussel, 1992, lectur
e two.
43 America Bifronte, 1961.
44 I believe that Caturelli does not know that he has used the same expression t
hat Kant used in
his dcfinition of Aujk/iirung: "Unmundigkeit" (see my work, Dussel, 1992, lectur
e one).