BASIC NOTIONS OF MARIÀ CORBÍ'S THEORETICAL AXIOLOGICAL EPISTEMOLOGICAL DISCIPLINE AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF MYTHICAL EPISTEMOLOGY AS AN EXPRESSION OF SUBALTERNITY

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the foundations of the discipline of axiological epistemology developed by Marià Corbí (2020) and the deconstruction of mythical epistemology as an expression of subalternity, that is, as a deconstruction of the condition of colonialism. The advent of industrial society and its consequent social transformations had repercussions on the modification of the epistemological way of interpreting reality. In post-industrial societies, we notice a certain mismatch between the efforts towards technological progress aligned to the advancement of scientific knowledge, but in disharmony with regard to the development of interpersonal and collective relationships, the acceptance of differences and of what is different. The phenomenon causes acute and powerful impacts on individual and collective lifestyles. This mismatch becomes visible in the response of the value systems represented by religious beliefs, through institutions that strengthen conflicts, violence, and the permanence of inconsistent convictions to sustain the demands of contemporaneity that points to solidarity, to joint and sustainable action. We propose to analyze and understand how this archaic reaction becomes incompatible and outdated when faced with the processes of development and social transformation. In this context, the discipline of Marià Corbí's axiological epistemology proves to be relevant and urgent for the debates that seek, in a possible and viable way, the updating of belief systems in contemporaneity, since the scenario calls for a unique reality, centered in multiple and flexible forms, without the condition of subalternity. Five points that reinforce this hypothesis are presented.