Enrique Dussel Quotes on Justice
Enrique Dussel was an Argentine-Mexican philosopher and theologian and the principal architect of the philosophy of liberation. This page collects quotes attributed to Enrique Dussel on the topic of justice, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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:
“The Other is the absolute that breaks open the totality of the same.”
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Attributed to Enrique Dussel:
“Ethics is the affirmation of the life of the Other.”
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Attributed to Enrique Dussel:
“To philosophize from the periphery is to philosophize from the suffering of the oppressed.”
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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