Enrique Dussel: Ontological Fetishization

Abstract

Totality is the category that founds the sense of the entities in the world. Totality is not an object that we can know by the senses, an empirical entity, it is not even the total set of facts or objects of existing reality, it is simply the foundation of meaning. Totality is a totality of meaning that applies to the living of a community. It is a structured whole of meaning for the community and its living. That is, the human being already is-in a world, the entities are sense-things because I am already part of a community. Entities do not appear to me in a chaotic way, but they already have an order, a function in a whole from which they are understood by people. Totality is the foundation of meaning and indicates the limit of the sense of the entities (I do not confuse football with swimming on the sports field).