%0 Journal Article %T Contra la pr¨˘ctica tan aplaudida de hacer pasar elementos autoritarios como diferencias culturales de origen aut¨®ctono %A Mansilla %A Hugo Celso Felipe %J Enfoques %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the text is a criticism to the contemporary theories that proclaim the incomparability of "civilizing projects" in the third world, due to the existence of a wide and deep cultural diversity which would make it impossible to find a historical "meta-criteria", from which positive and negative aspects could be judged. as a matter of fact, this would imply that many authoritarian aspects of many socio-cultural governments would be omitted. examples of the islamic world and andean regions in south american are analyzed. %K authoritarianism %K andean justice %K islamic world %K post-modernism %K cultural relativism. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1669-27212011000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en