Per una nuova possibilità etica: l’apertura all’alterità

There are many, in contemporary philosophy, political and moral speculations on the building and the improvement of society; between them, it is interesting to pull together three different ethical currents, because they seem to draw a conceptual arc that goes from one extreme to its opposite, but not contrary: the individualism, that leads, of course, to liberal theories, the neocontractualism, which serves as a conciliatory attempt between different moral claims, and the communitarianism, sort of alter ego of the individualism, that enhances features of each community, instead of those of each individual. However, for not collapse on themselves, all the theories related to the dynamics of coexistence, require starting from man: only by having the man as the focal point, is possible to build the home more suitable for him. In this regard, is particularly interesting the thought of “otherness”, proposed a new way of relating to the others and therefore, can be said, of a new lifestyle (issues addressed here in the footsteps of Emmanuel Lévinas, Paul Ric ur and Jacques Derrida).