Dussel, Enrique D.

Ethics of liberation in the age of globalization and exclusion [electronic resource] / Enrique Dussel ; translated by Eduardo Mendieta ... [et al.] ; translation edited by Alejandro A. Vallega. - Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 715 p. : ill., map) - Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

High cultures and the inter-regional system: beyond Hellenocentrism -- The material moment of the ethics, practical truth -- Formal morality, intersubjective validity -- Ethical feasibility and the "goodness claim" -- The ethical critique of the prevailing system : from the perspective of the negativity of the victims -- The anti-hegemonic validity of the community of victims -- The liberation principle -- Appendix I. some theses in the order of their appearance in the text -- Appendix II. Sais: capital of Egypt.

0822395215 (electronic bk.) 9780822395218 (electronic bk.)


Liberation theology.
Christian ethics--Catholic authors.
History--Philosophy.
Social ethics.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Internationalism.