Sobre el sentido de la ética y el sentido del saber (Una aproximación a Levinas)

Belén Altuna

doi:10.3989/isegoria.2006.i35.39

Sobre el sentido de la ética y el sentido del saber (Una aproximación a Levinas)

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Belén Altuna Universidad del País Vasco / EHU

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https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2006.i35.39

Keywords:

Levinas, face, ethics, beingfor- the-other, responsability, proximity, justice

Abstract

According to Emmanuel Levinas, the meaning of ethics lies on a pre-ontological orientation that helps us become a being for-the-other, instead of just a being with-the-other. In the proximity of a face-to-face encounter, the face of the other awakens in us a responsibility towards him or her, and also towards all those who already appear in him or her. However, in order to comply with the call of the other, some kind of mediation is often needed, some kind of “knowing” (thought, calculus, generalization, depersonalization) that entails some distance and therefore a risk of forgetting its meaning. As a result, some aporias and difficulties are inherent to proximity—those will be the subject matter of the second part of this paper.

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2006-12-30

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Altuna, B. (2006). Sobre el sentido de la ética y el sentido del saber (Una aproximación a Levinas). Isegoría, (35), 245–263. https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2006.i35.39

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No. 35 (2006)

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Notes and Discussions

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