Gutiérrez's Analysis

Gutiérrez’s statement embodies the idea that the life that we are given is simply a proving ground in which we are judge by our actions on a moral scale. Gutiérrez’s thinking is on the level of servitude towards the poor; this is the ultimate goal and mission of one practicing the Christian faith. Servitude towards the poor acts as charity; it is the quintessential component to the Christian religion. In this ideology the poor serve as a medium for God’s evaluation of the soul. Gutiérrez’s believes that the poor are more in tuned with the will of God, and in order for us to achieve that same level of synchronization with his will we should try to assimilate the situation of being poor through charity Gutiérrez states that life isn’t given to you for yourself it is given to you in order for a person to help another.. The concept of transcendence or rather salvation from this life stems from the soul. …show more content…
Quijano’s work of the Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism depicts this concept of a New Dualism, a distinction between body and spirit. In this particular passage within his work Quijano sets the stage with the historical perspective of the subject matter by providing where exactly the distinction arose from. During the era in which Christianity was under repression between the Jews and Muslims, in this particular era the body was the object of repression therefore it appeared separate from the soul; since the soul is the object of salvation. This very concept wouldn’t be expanded upon until Descartes ideas on the subject came into