Boaventura de Sousa Santos was born in Coímbra, Portugal in 1940, he is doctor in Right Sociology and a theorist of epistemology. His greatest contribution to the area of Sociology and Epistemology is the idea of "Epistemologías del Sur". This is based on the idea that the most part of the philosophy and social theory is created in Europe, and is over rational. He think that this kind of epistemoly killed the other forms of knowledge, for example the knowledge of our ethnic people. Not only in South America, in Africa and Asia as well. Every other form of medicine, philosophy or science is called superstition or non-rational knowledge. And the capitalism have been distroying our world and our nature, even being very rational, because it has the idea of the maximization of productivity. He think that the humanity goes to their suicide. But the native people has some solutions for many of the problems with the nature, but they are ignored by the eurocentric knowledge.
I like him because he try to recognized the knowledge of forgotten people, because he is from the south as well, but the south in the north.
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