- Lived:
- 1934–2023 · La Paz (Mendoza, Argentina), Madrid, Paris, Nazareth, Mendoza, Mexico City
- Tradition:
- Philosophy of liberation; the founding voice of decolonial thought
- The Big Idea:
- Philosophy has been written from the center of the world-system as if that center were everywhere; think instead from the periphery — from the victims — and modernity, ethics, and history all look different.
- If you remember one thing:
- Five hundred years before Descartes' "I think," Dussel argued, Europe had already said "I conquer" — and philosophy has been covering for it ever since.