Riconoscimento e disconoscimento, tra provvidenzialismo e probabilismo: per una introduzione al “pensiero coloniale” antropologico nell’America Latina del XVII secolo.

Leon Pinelo and Diego de Avendaño represent two of the most significant authors of the 17th century Peruvian philosophical panorama who, in close continuity with the avant-garde positions of the second school, rethink the relationship between Spaniards and indigenous people trying to balance the needs of Spanish politics of control of a multiethnic society with the ethical demands of the native population. This is the reason why the use of providentialism on the one hand and probabilism on the other, guaranteed a precise counterweight to every abuse, the only possible synthesis in the long process of recognition of the other.