EMANUEL LÉVINAS AND THE "END OF ETHICS"

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https://doi.org/10.26512/pl.v1i1.11480

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Otherness. Another Completely. Infinite. Singularity. Face.

Abstract

This paper aims to present some central features of the thought of the philosopher Emanuel Lévinas, from his advocacy of the philosophical task as a task eminently ethical and that the conception of philosophy that we find in the Western tradition, which the ultimate foundation lies on the subject-centerd reason, does not provide a proper perspective to the treatment of otherness. Whereas, for Lévinas, the alterity would be the very starting point of philosophical reflection, and this tradition of absolute reason is not able to reveal it, the thought of Lévinas presents some approaches to a way of thinking called “end of ethics”. These approaches we seek to make clearer from the confrontation of the Lévinas’s thought with the ideas presented by J. Caputo in the text “The End of Ethics”.

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Author Biography

Andre Henrique Mendes Viana de Oliveira, Instituto Federal do Piauí

Possui graduação em licenciatura plena em filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Piauí(2010) e mestrado em Ética e Epistemologia pela Universidade Federal do Piauí(2013). Atualmente é Professor de Filosofia do Instituto Federal do Piauí.

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CAPUTO, John D.The End of Ethics. In:-The Blackwell guide to ethical theory. UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. pp, 111-128.

DOS SANTOS, Marcelo L. Emanuel Lévinas e a inteligibilidade da experienciação. Utopía y Praxis Latinoamericana, vol. 11, n 34, 2006.

ECHEVERRI, Luis G. J. & GARCÃA, Juan C. A. Rostro y Alteridad: de la presencia plástica a la desnudez ética. Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud, 8 (1), pp. 175-188, 2010.

LEVINAS, E. Entre nós: ensaios sobre a Alteridade. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1997.

Published

2012-05-30

How to Cite

Mendes Viana de Oliveira, A. H. (2012). EMANUEL LÉVINAS AND THE "END OF ETHICS". PÓLEMOS – Revista De Estudantes De Filosofia Da Universidade De Brasília, 1(1), 20–29. https://doi.org/10.26512/pl.v1i1.11480

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