Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation by Frederick B. Mills

Author:Frederick B. Mills
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319945507
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

This detailed statement of the material principle emphasizes not only our obligation to all of humanity, but to “all life on the planet Earth.”

Dussel, in dialogue with the Indigenous traditions of living well ( buen vivir ) and respect for Mother Earth ( pachamama ), maintains all living things have a certain dignity .9 What is special about human life , however, is that it is a moment in the cosmic evolution of life on the planet when life has become aware of itself and its responsibility not only for its singular expressions, but also for all living things.10 In order to pursue this end, we seek out technically feasible courses of action that are conducive to the survival and increase of human life in community and in harmony with Mother Earth. Dussel calls these courses of action mediations because they are means to an end. It is the task of practical reasoning, in different fields of praxis, to engage the cultural, social, political, economic and ecological fields of the lifeworld in order to secure the means to advance this material principle .

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