Ethics in Dussel

In this paper, we address the responsibility for the other/victim in Enrique Dussel's Liberation Ethics. The philosopher, under the influence of Levinas' thought, tries to think ethics and no longer ontology as the first philosophy and, thus, overcoming the egology in which Western philosophical thought has fallen, he puts responsibility before freedom, excessively emphasized by contemporary philosophical work. However, even though in such elements Dussel is very close to the thought of Emmanuel Lévinas, the thinker presents the original character of his philosophy to the extent that he thinks of the other as endowed with greater materiality, understanding him as the other/victim. Thus, he seeks to reflect on the relationship between our pre-original responsibility for the other/victim and concepts such as proximity, totality, and the very doing of philosophy committed to liberation.