An investigation about the history of philosophy in the Andine Prehispanic civilization

Abstract

This research shows that there is no antagonistic opposition between pre-
Hispanic Andean philosophy and the development of philosophy, nor with
Western Greek philosophy, except in the forms of its special theme or deepening
of the specific philosophical problem, because in no case it is contrary to the law
of philosophical development, and from it we must understand that the names,
words or terms used to name the concepts even being different have the same
content and follow the same logic of development. For example, “Pacha” is the
closer formulation to the scientific concept of space/time, since it overtakes the
impossibility of separating space and time from objects or phenomena from the
objective reality, it is achieved not as a scientific discovery but as a need to draw
up the thought about this phenomenon, so similar to modern science. Or Cay and
Camac, concepts of “matter” and “ideal reality”, lost or hidden in pre-Hispanic
texts, they are categories that solve the fundamental problems of philosophy,
such as about “What is the “actual being”,” or about the relationship between
being and thinking. Likewise, it is considered that pre-Hispanic Andean idealism
does not differ antagonistically from classical Greek idealism, contrary to that, it
is possible to discuss on the same level with Plato or with any idealist of the Greek
Classic philosophy