Open AccessOther/the other: Tradition of reducing the other to an other
Author(s) -
Борис Братина
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo0904055b
Subject(s) - transcendence (philosophy) , economic justice , epistemology , power (physics) , function (biology) , philosophy , environmental ethics , sociology , law and economics , law , political science , physics , evolutionary biology , quantum mechanics , biology
Modern thought essentially reduced The Other to that which is mere other. The result was knowledge in function of power and domination. Nevertheless, one should seek for solution in idea of ethical transcendence, a concept that possesses highly emancipative potentials towards a world with more justice and liberty