A teoria geral da prestação do dever fundamental, sob a ótica de Lévinas

Abstract

This article will attempt to describe what is to provide a fundamental duty, and the epistemological assumption of "possessive individualism" of modern empiricist and rationalist thinking that duty, contrasting with a new vision advocated by Levinas, is thinking that this provision, worrying with the next, with the consequences of what that duty is fulfilled or not fulfilled might entail, always within a humanistic vision governed by legal force, an altruistic vision of incorporating the other, within an ethical, considered rhizomatic matrix like as a principle source of human dignity and fundamental rights and our attitudes and ethical praxis. Levinas calls this theoretical approach to ethics of alterity.