Philosophy has taken an outstanding place in the evolution of Latin American culture, and although this is appreciated in full extent in the last times, the developed Amerindian countries reached the threshold of philosophical ideas, although they didn't have the level of systematic fashion, depth and theoretical rigor which generally characterizes philosophy.

Most of Latin American thinkers have linked their philosophical work to the political concern and the historical-social demands of each historical time, and although a school of philosophical thought is not distinguished in an absolute way, their heterodoxy has allowed them own elaborations.

In the same way that there has been an eclecticism, an illustration, a positivism and even a sui generis Marxism, there have also been attempts of creating a “Latin American philosophy " and a “liberation philosophy”, and philosophers from other latitudes have achieved acknowledged formulations.

In the 20th century, due to the accelerated increment of cultural exchange, Latin American philosophers have been able to insert themselves, in a better way, in the level of international philosophical discussions, with a consequent search of originality that stimulates creativity.

Nowadays, Latin American philosophical production has a valuable arsenal of cultured, positivist, Marxist, phenomenological, existentialist, analytic, hermeneutic, liberating philosophic ideas, etc., which are valid in the process of knowledge of the world for its transformation in favour of nature and mankind.