The meaning of life in the anthropology and ethics of levinas
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Meaning of life, Context, Anthropology, Ethics, Welcome, Encounter with the other
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In this work, the author addresses the possibility of asking about the meaning of life given the unfavourable social context. The author distinguishes between an ontological anthropology and an ethical anthropology, the one that refers to metaphysics and the one that refers to ethics as an experience of suffering. He describes the meaning of life from the Levinasian perspective, identified in the acceptance of the other, in the encounter with the other, stressing that the meaning of life is not possible from a metaphysical, idealistic anthropology. He defends a material, compassionate ethic that allows us to assume the circumstances that surround the life of human beings today. It calls for a reference to anthropology.
and ethics, which opens the door to a reasonably adequate response to the question of the other, to the meaning of life. Without this reference, the search for the meaning of life falls into emptiness, into nothingness.
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Pedro Ortega Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain
Director of the International Collective for the Pedagogy of Otherness (REDIPE). Member of the REDIPE Quality Committee. Architect of the paradigm of pedagogical discourse and educational praxis, the Pedagogy of Otherness. Retired Professor of Educational Theory at the University of Murcia, Director of the International Network for the Pedagogy of Otherness (RIPAL, REDIPE). Retired from the University of Murcia.