Footnote:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Description:
Available in English for the first time, this much-anticipated translation of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation marks a milestone in ethical discourse. Dussel is one of the world's foremost philosophers. This treatise, originally published in 1998, is his masterwork and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.Throughout his career, Dussel has sought to open a space for articulating new possibilities for humanity out of, and in light of, the suffering, dignity, and creative drive of those who have been excluded from Western Modernity and neoliberal rationalism. Grounded in engagement with the oppressed, his thinking has figured prominently in philosophy, political theory, and liberation movements around the world.In Ethics of Liberation, Dussel provides a comprehensive world history of ethics, demonstrating that our most fundamental moral and ethical traditions did not emerge in ancient Greece and develop through modern European and North American thought. The obscured and ignored origins of Modernity lie outside the Western tradition. Ethics of Liberation is a monumental rethinking of the history, origins, and aims of ethics. It is a critical reorientation of ethical theory
Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series -- Editor’s Foreword to the English Edition -- Preface -- Introduction: World History of Ethical Systems -- Introduction -- 1. The Material Moment of Ethics. Practical Truth -- 2. Formal Morality. Intersubjective Validity -- 3. Ethical Feasibility and the “Goodness Claim” -- Introduction -- 4. The Ethical Criticism of the Prevailing System. From the Perspective of the Negativity of the Victims -- 5. The Antihegemonic Validity of the Community of Victims -- 6. The Liberation Principle -- Appendix 1. Some Theses in Order of Appearance in the Text -- Appendix 2 . Sais: Capital of Egypt -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author