Plurality of knowledge and intercultural epistemological dialogue for the strengthening of ancestral wisdom. Part one: Africa, Latin America, India, China, and Japan

Abstract

The article analyzes the historical evolution of the knowledge construction process taking into account the contributions of the different cultural matrices that converge on the soil of humanity. This first part includes contributions from Africa, Latin America, India, China and Japan. The need to articulate through an inter-epistemological dialogue with the common purpose of putting them at the service of the collective well-being of the peoples and jointly facing the existing challenges in the course of humanity as a result of the impacts generated by scientific concepts that put at risk is stressed to the planet, nature and life itself, which implies safeguarding ancestral knowledge and its knowledge systems rooted in conceptions in harmony with nature and society.