Domination is not a
necessary fact of human life. Most analysis on human injustice focus on causal
links or the empirical without due regard for systemic wrong. This undermines
the human being who is the moral locus of attention in a philosophical
investigation. No human being has a pre-ordained destiny, and for this reason
it is truly important to examine the rootedness of oppression and other forms of exploitation in modern society. Enrique Dussel points to the egocentric logic of the Western mind. History, for him, is “the space of a world within the ontological horizon is
the space of a world center, of the organic, self-conscious state that brooks
no contradictions because it is an imperialist state.” (Dussel 1985, 2)
