Tag: philosophy

  • KbA

    Ethics of Liberation, synopsis Chapter 3

    Dussels inmense Ethics of Liberation. This post takes on the third chapter.

  • KbA

    Ethics of Liberation, synopsis Chapter 2

    An attempt to make a summary of Dussels inmense Ethics of Liberation. This post takes on the second chapter.

  • KbA

    The Eternal Victim and the task of Humanity; Dussel pt. 3

    Because we can all be victims, because we have all been victims, and because we will all be victims, our task as humans is to organize ourselves to tend to victims everywhere, every new time they appear, and in every form they may do so. Because in looking at the eyes of the other I see someone who I can…

  • KbA

    Dussel’s Blind Eye and Totalizing Victims

    I am currently reading Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation in the Age of Globalization and Exclusion. As is apparent by my last post, I have some unresolved dilemmas with Dussel’s thinking. Concretely, last post revolved around the Material Criterion which stated that: Whoever acts humanly[1] always and necessarily has for the content of their act some […]

  • KbA

    The Problem(s) with Dussel’s Extensive Anthropocentrism

    Enrique Dussel’s (2011) Ética de Liberación En la Edad de la Globalización y de la Exclusión [Ethics of Liberation. In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion] is the culmination of a life project which Dussel initially embarked on in the early 1970s. The project was (or is, as I will argue it is not finished) […]

  • KbA

    On Leadership, between Dussel and Burnham

    For the past months I have struggled with several ideas pertaining to democratic theory. First, on the question of legitimacy (“what gives rulers legitimacy”). Second, on the methods towards electing —and maintaining— a leader (i.e., either presidentialism or parliamentarism, but also exact mechanisms of representation, either representative democracy or direct democracy). Third, and above all, […]

  • KbA

    Being as My Ancestors

    I remember, when I was possibly six or seven, that one night I was crying uncontrollably because I realized that at one time I would have to die, and this meant non-existence. This happened several nights. Thoughts stormed all over my head, from “what is non-existence”, to “how does it feel”, “how do we know […]