Autonomia em Kant e alteridade em Levinas, um diálogo (im)possível para uma ética necessária

Abstract

The ethical matter traverses the life of the human being and, according to Kant, if there is an absolute reality worldwide, it is the reality of our moral sense, of the ethical obligation which leads our conscience to distinguish between the right and the wrong. The Kant ethics consists on the discovery of the individual as value, and in his action as the one who is responsible for practicing his duties. It is called “duty - to be” moral, formed by a set of principles and behavior rules, emerged from universal maxima. For him, the ethics is an experience of the autonomy of the individual who is governed by a pratical reason, by allowing the construction of a universal law. Kant thinks a finite ethics which involves a duty and corresponds to a human being capable to autonomy and, for that reason, worthy of respect. On the other hand, Levinas introduces the alterity concept to base his ethical project, which is based on the exteriority, it means, the moral responsibility comes to us from outside, from the oth