Enrique Dussel Quotes
Enrique Dussel was an Argentine-Mexican philosopher and theologian and the principal architect of the philosophy of liberation. After studies in Mendoza, Madrid, and Paris, he turned in the late 1960s to a philosophy that takes the perspective of the oppressed peoples of the periphery as its starting point, articulated in Philosophy of Liberation and Ethics of Liberation. The quotes below are attributed to Enrique Dussel, organized by topic.
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Enrique Dussel on Freedom
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“The just and urgent claims of ecology can be united to the claims for justice by the exploited person. Earth and poor humanity are exploited and destroyed simultaneously, by a capitalism whose criterion of the subsumption of technology is the growth of the rate of profit, and by a productivist Stalinism whose criterion was the growth of the rate of production, both of which are antiecological and ”
The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor and the Philosophy of Liberation , as translated and edited by Eduardo Mendieta (1996) p .13 -
“Ethics of Liberation in the Age of Globalization and Exclusion (Duke University Press: 2013), p. xx”
The philosophical ethics most in fashion, the standard ones, and even those that have a critical orientation with a claim to being postconventional in character, are in fact themselves the ethics of minorities (most emphatically of hegemonic, dominating minorities; those that own the resources, the words, the arguments, the capital, the armies) that frequently and quite cynically can ignore the vi
Enrique Dussel on Justice
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“The just and urgent claims of ecology can be united to the claims for justice by the exploited person. Earth and poor humanity are exploited and destroyed simultaneously, by a capitalism whose criterion of the subsumption of technology is the growth of the rate of profit, and by a productivist Stalinism whose criterion was the growth of the rate of production, both of which are antiecological and anti-human systems.”
The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor and the Philosophy of Liberation , as translated and edited by Eduardo Mendieta (1996) p .13
Enrique Dussel on Knowledge
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“The philosophical ethics most in fashion, the standard ones, and even those that have a critical orientation with a claim to being postconventional in character, are in fact themselves the ethics of minorities (most emphatically of hegemonic, dominating minorities; those that own the resources, the words, the arguments, the capital, the armies) that frequently and quite cynically can ignore the victims, those most affected, who have been dominated and excluded from the "negotiating tables" of the ruling system and from the dominant communities of communication.”
Ethics of Liberation in the Age of Globalization and Exclusion (Duke University Press: 2013), p. xx
Enrique Dussel on Love
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“The Other is the absolute that breaks open the totality of the same.”
Enrique Dussel on Politics
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“Philosophy of liberation begins from the underside of history.”
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“Modernity began in 1492 with the conquest of America.”
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“To philosophize from the periphery is to philosophize from the suffering of the oppressed.”
Enrique Dussel on Virtue
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“Ethics is the affirmation of the life of the Other.”