Features of the historical self-identification of the ‘Philosophy of Liberation’: the role of the intellectual personality; [Características de la autoidentificación histórica de la ‘Filosofía de la Liberación’: el papel de la personalidad intelectual]

This article examines the views of Latin American philosophers on the process of formation of the Latin American subject of history, its characteristic features, as well as the role of the intellectual in this process. The main ob-jective of this paper is to demonstrate the position of the prominent Argentine philosopher A. A. Roig, and to compare his position with the position of ano-ther well-known representative of the philosophy of liberation (E. Dussel). In this paper therefore, Roig’s works devoted to the philosophical interpreta-tion of the process of formation and development of Latin American national thought are analyzed. It is established that in the writings of this thinker the activity of Latin American people appears as the activity of a single collective subject of history. During the study, we conclude that both philosophers (Roig and Dussel), come to the same idea in different ways: the intellectual identity of the Latin American collective subject of history is based on the history of interaction between the people of Latin America and Europe, uni-que in its dramatic nature and same for the entire continent. The work uses mainly the historical and bibliographic method, as well as the method of comparative analysis. © 2022, Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnologica de Colombia. All rights reserved.