In an essay addressing communities of philosophers outside the European context, Juan Revueltas outlines the difficulties of self-definition and the construction of a uniquely Latin American philosophical community. The problem as he explains it is to find a way between the horns of the dilemma of a colonizing universalism on the one hand and of a “false particularism” on the other. Revueltas argues that in describing or constructing a uniquely Latin American philosophical community it is necessary to avoid the occupation of indigenous communities by dominant European systems, since the latter tend to normalize and mask their own built-in cultural biases via claims to universal validity. His point is backed by a burgeoning literature critiquing the tendency of Western philosophy for its colonization of world philosophical communities and calling on these communities to define themselves.