Prerrogativas éticas para habitar o 'ser mestre' no século XXI

Abstract

The present work is based on an ethical concern: how to recognize mastery in the 21st century? And how to link it to ethical perspectives at the same time? To answer such concerns, a comprehensive and argumentative outline of some characteristics of that century pointed out by Bauman and by Hardt and Negri is produced. In this context, carried out in the first chapter, we seek to problematize the way in which liquid society creates mechanisms to subjectify the subjects who are there in identity development. These problematizations are permeated by concepts and arguments of Emmanuel Lévinas and Enrique Dussel that make it possible to tangent reflections for the perception of possible ways of re-signification of that time. These tangents are deepened in the second chapter, when the recognition of the other as a master is approached, investigating frontiers as a place where subjects meet and recognize each other; broadening notions about who is the master and what is the role of his dwelling in this mastery. The third chapter (under construction) seeks to point out the ethical prerogatives of this mastery, anchored in Lévinas and Dussel, namely: truth and justice.