Ethics and alterity

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  • François Laplantine Université Lyon 2

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https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.050

Keywords:

Knowledge, Listening, Norms, Recognition, Looking

Abstract

Ethics in anthropology first is an ethics of listening and looking that begins with being attentive to others. This act, which does not consist in grasping, mastering, or taking, but in sharing and giving back, can be considered as a true mode of knowledge.

References

Lévinas, E. (1996), Totalité et infini, Paris, Le Livre de Poche.

Wittgenstein, L. (1961), Investigations philosophiques, Paris, Gallimard.

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2017-06-22

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