Science and Technology of Liberation in Latin America: conceptual bases and normative principles

Authors

  • Nahuel Pallitto Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas (FCEN), Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Author https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2072-253X
  • Nazareth Juarez Rusjan Instituto de Oncología A. H. Roffo, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Author https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9720-7505
  • Iriel Surai Molina nstituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales (IPEEC), Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina. Author https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4892-8922
  • Guillermo Folguera Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas (FCEN), Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4990-7039

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56294/piii2024299

Keywords:

Ethics of Liberation, Science, Technology, Normative Principles

Abstract

In this work the categories and principles of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation were presented with the objective of outlining the conceptual bases of a Science and Technology of Liberation in Latin America.(1,2,3,4,5) Scientific knowledge and technological tools can serve as an instrument of domination or can, on the contrary, contribute to liberation. To promote the latter, the work offered normative principles that allow us to judge and orient the natural sciences and their technological developments in our region. These principles contain a material aspect linked to the affirmation of the life of communities denied by a dominant world-system, a formal aspect that points to the need for their participation in the establishment of research agendas and technological developments, and a feasibility aspect that recognizes the conditions for the concrete realization of the remaining principles.(6,7,8) To illustrate all this, Agroecology was presented as a possible expression of and opportunity for a Science and Technology of Liberation in favor of the oppressed. The final reflections highlighted the importance of considering the world of the systemic victims as the point of departure and arrival of all scientific-technological research with pretensions of ethical goodness

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Published

2024-05-08

How to Cite

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Pallitto N, Juarez Rusjan N, Molina IS, Folguera G. Science and Technology of Liberation in Latin America: conceptual bases and normative principles. SCT Proceedings in Interdisciplinary Insights and Innovations [Internet]. 2024 May 8 [cited 2024 Oct. 7];2:299. Available from: https://proceedings.ageditor.ar/index.php/piii/article/view/268