The Most Famous

PHILOSOPHERS from Peru

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This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvian Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,267 Philosophers, 1 of which were born in Peru. This makes Peru the birth place of the 73rd most number of Philosophers behind Sri Lanka, and Iceland.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Peruvian Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Peruvian Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928 - 2024)

With an HPI of 56.84, Gustavo Gutiérrez is the most famous Peruvian Philosopher.  His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.

Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Díaz (8 June 1928 – 22 October 2024) was a Peruvian philosopher, Catholic theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of liberation theology in Latin America. His 1971 book A Theology of Liberation is considered pivotal to the formation of liberation theology. He held the John Cardinal O'Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and was a visiting professor at universities in North America and Europe. Gutiérrez studied medicine and literature at the National University of San Marcos before deciding to become a priest. He began studying theology at the Theology Faculty of Leuven in Belgium and in Lyon, France. His theological focus connected salvation and liberation through the preferential option for the poor, with an emphasis on improving the material conditions of the impoverished. Gutiérrez proposed that revelation and eschatology have been excessively idealized at the expense of efforts to bring about the Kingdom of God on Earth. His methodology was often critical of the social and economic injustice he believed to be responsible for poverty in Latin America, and of the Catholic clergy. The central pastoral question of his work was: "How do we convey to the poor that God loves them?"

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Peruvian philosophers born between 1928 and 1928. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Peruvian philosophers include Gustavo Gutiérrez.

Deceased Peruvian Philosophers

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