Operación leyenda negra: la negación del pensamiento español en la raíz de la Filosofía moderna

Black Legend Operation: the Denial of Spanish Thought at the root of Modern Philosophy

Abstract

The article demonstrates that in the center of Europe there was a strong and profound impact of numerous works of Spanish thought. Written in Latin or Spanish in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, by scholastics or humanists, their approaches form an important root of modern philosophy, since they were received very openly in many other European countries -especially before their national boom-, and their ideas were adopted, manipulated and even plagiarized. Afterwards the works were discarded, and their authorship was forgotten. It is hypothesized that these cases of absorption and oblivion of Spanish philosophy are systematic, and that they have to do with mechanisms typical of the black legend, in a kind of operation of erasure or denial, to end up in the current ignorance.