Rosto e ética no pensamento de Emmanuel Levinas

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Tahim, Demetrius Oliveira
• Orientador(a): Pivatto, Pergentino Stefano
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: FILOSOFIA FRANCESA; LEVINAS, EMMANUEL - CRÍTICA E INTERPRETAÇÃO; ÉTICA; ONTOLOGIA; OUTRO (FILOSOFIA)
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3410

This paper aims to describe, from the thought of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), the relationship with the face of others as ethics. The leitmotif of this work is the levinasian reading of the infinity’s idea. The description of the idea of infinite indicates the relationship with something completely outside of that who thinks about the former, as well as affirming a big gap between the thinker and thought. Levinas works in the formal structure of this idea in order to describe the relationship with others. The concreteness of the idea of infinity is produced in the social relationship and is maintained with the face of others. The design of this relationship shows the “I” as welcoming of this face which is described as another. Only the presence of others concerns the “I”, confronting its arbitrary and free movement of ownership and possession. This challenging of the someone’s freedom will be called “ethics” and says the anticipations of justice in relation to freedom and, thus, ethics and pre-ontology. The unfolding of this first relationship - face to face - will be discussed in the text taking as a starting point the history of philosophy emphasizing mainly on the critical key to the ontology proposed by Heidegger. The aim, with this, is to show that the relationship with the face does not include the opening of the being and, moreover, is a source of meaning and is capable of promoting justice in humanity as a host of difference.