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- Title
Levinas' ethical perspective: its meaning for education.
- Authors
Rocha de la Torre, Alfredo
- Abstract
This paper seeks to outline the link between the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and education--παιδεία. By taking a distance from attempts to apply the axiological and deontological aspects of Levinas' ethics in education, it is argued that, beyond instrumentalizing the fundamental categories of the Lithuanian thinker, it is a matter of understanding the meaning of his philosophy and how this can enrich pedagogical practice. The work is carried out in six steps: (1) characterization of Levianasian philosophy as a decentralization of subjectivity and its ethical pre-eminence; (2) description of two areas of human experience--enjoyment and Desire--which define (3) two different types of education: for nourishment and for responsibility towards the Other; 4) characterization of today's world as a world of work, of calculation, of skill and of the relation between means and ends, in which (5) the areas of emergence of a third party--politics, economics, justice, education--are intended to degrade ethics to a second level; and (6) the need to place the face of the Other at the center of the educational act.
- Subjects
LEVINAS, Emmanuel, 1906-1995; EDUCATION ethics; DEONTOLOGICAL ethics; MEANING (Philosophy); SUBJECTIVITY; ETHICS education; ETHICS
- Publication
Revista Praxis & Saber, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 30, p1
- ISSN
2216-0159
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19053/22160159.v12.n30.2021.11218