Eurocentricism, the Philosophy of Liberation and the Social Model of Disability: The Practice of a Social Movement within a Latin American Context

To speak about disability always seems to open up new horizons for discussion.

Disability exists as a human reality, but has not necessarily been understood as

an important topic for consideration, unlike many other human differences. This

Chapter will argue that from an ethical and philosophical perspective, the notion of

social responsibility profoundly connects difference and disability, which requires

that history is reinterpreted by new theories and philosophies of liberation. That is,

theories and philosophies which open up new horizons so as to hear the new voices

of the excluded.