Gustavo Escobar Valenzuela in the book Enlightment in Latin America Philosophy (1980), relocates the concept of “mental emancipators” proposed by Leopoldo Zea and retaken by José Carlos Chiaramonte (1979),] to refer to the members of the “communities of knowledge” in each one of the Spanish colonies in the late eighteenth century, where the concern was the pursuit of the autonomy of the individual before the colonial mentality characterized by assuming the tradition of the counter-reformation thinking in America.