A responsabilidade pelo outro/vítima na ética de Enrique Dussel

Abstract

We approach in the present work the responsibility for the other / victim in the Ethics of the Enrique Dussel Liberation. The philosopher, under the Levinasian thought influence, seeks to think ethics and no longer ontology as the first philosophy, and thus, overcoming the egology in which Western philosophical thought has fallen. It puts the responsibility for freedom overly emphasized by the contemporary philosophical practice. However, although in such elements Dussel is very close to the thought of Emmanuel Lévinas, the thinker presents the original character of his philosophy as they he thinks the other as endowed with greater materiality, understanding him as the other / victim. Thus, it seeks to reflect on the relationship between our pre-originating responsibility for the other / victim and concepts such as closeness, totality and the own philosophical doing committed to liberation. It embraces the commitment to think the Latin American reality in the search to overcome the oppression and misery to which the victims of the present socioeconomic system are subject. Does it, however, recognizing in the face of the other / victim the interpellation for justice capable of breaking us with the existing totality. His ethics, therefore, leads to a rethinking of politics itself based on certain critical principles and sets us the challenge of the rescue of utopias and rethinking, from the exterior of the victim, his memories, narratives and heroes, other ways for the human.