Philosophical and Historical Issues: Rebellion, Restauration and Foundation of a New State The link between philosophy and language is such that they create a shared common base: the possibility of thinking. (1) Consequently, no narration is possible without a philosophical underwriting of the narration, which makes speech understandable and creates the possibility for a meaning to be expressed through words. Contemporary philosophy has often treated this subject (Derrida, for instance), but it has scarcely been addressed in relation to the philosophical base of a Hispanic-American chronicle about breaking with the Spanish crown. Our analysis of the Jornada de Omagua y Dorado: cronica de Lope de Aguirre (Vazquez y Almesto 1986) (Journey of Omagua and Dorado: Chronicle of Lope de Aguirre, henceforth Jornada), outlines the philosophical narration that underlies a text narrating events which, apparently, have no philosophical nature. This analysis allows us, also, to ask if the authors of the chronicle narrate what they see, of, conversely, can only see what they philosophically conceive.
