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.
Enrique Dussel on Love
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Attributed to Enrique Dussel:
“The Other is the absolute that breaks open the totality of the same.”
Enrique Dussel on Politics
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Attributed to Enrique Dussel:
“Philosophy of liberation begins from the underside of history.”
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Attributed to Enrique Dussel:
“Modernity began in 1492 with the conquest of America.”
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Attributed to Enrique Dussel:
“To philosophize from the periphery is to philosophize from the suffering of the oppressed.”
Enrique Dussel on Virtue
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Attributed to Enrique Dussel:
“Ethics is the affirmation of the life of the Other.”