ALÉM DO MESMO: DE UMA ÉTICA DA ALTERIDADE PARA UMA ONTOLOGIA SITUADA

Abstract

In our work, we intend to present the critique of the "ethics of otherness" to Heidegger's ontology. Under the name of "ethics of otherness" we consider the productions of Emmanuel Lévinas and Enrique Dussel. The first, Jewish-LithuanianFrench, will take the ethical implications of Heidegger's ontology as an opening for his critique proposal. The question that arises is: the Other, the human subject who reveals himself, to the one who understands, also appears on the horizon of the world as a useful entity at hand? Having as central question the relationship between the Same and the Other, we will present the way that Lévinas proposes an absolute otherness, the Other as absolutely Other than the Same, as his critique of ontology. Continuing, we will work the interpretation and the displacement that the Latin-American philosopher Enrique Dussel realizes next to the critic of Lévinas, proposing that Latin America be taken as the Other than the European Totality – without, however, abandoning or denying the ontology.