The South Without Greece: Drafts For A Mestizo Socratic Maieutics

Rodolfo Kusch adopts the form of the draft for his American philosophical anthropology. Following this drafted form, we will explore the possibility of a mestizo Socratic maieutics in the figure of the teacher from Lake Titicaca, as conceptualized by Kusch. This exploration can be summarized in a threefold movement: the binary separation of mythos and logos; the dialectic of the explainer and the incapable that Modernity inherited from Greece; and the imperative to think of América Profunda outside the influence of Greece and the Western project. In this tripartite movement, we will gather clues from two Kushian drafts: a teacher who is neither wise nor ignorant but placed; and an América Profunda resistant to the ideas of purity inherited from Greece.