Considerations around the question of the method in the Philosophy of Liberation of Enrique Dussel

Abstract

Enrique Dussel develops his methodological discourse in the work Method for a Philosophy of Liberation (1974), in which he deeply analyzes the dialectic, from Aristotle to the overcoming of what he calls the "Hegelian dialectical ontology" by the analectic as method of a metaphysical philosophizing (Dussel, 1977, 64). Another key work in which he develops this idea is Philosophy of Liberation (1977), where the author exposes, thesis after thesis, in detail, what could be considered, a summary of his "first ethics". With the development of the analytical method, according to Dussel, "it is a matter of taking the essential methodical step" (Dussel, 1974, 175) that will mean overcoming the dialectical ontology up to Hegel. In the author's opinion, the dialectical method only reaches the horizon of the world, and there it encompasses the other, annulling it in its alterity.