O OUTRO TAMBÉM PODE TER RAZÃO - PARA ALÉM DE ELE TER APENAS SEUS DIREITOS RECONHECIDOS*

Abstract

This article is a second movement of the reflection on Hermeneutics as ethics woven around the coinage, description and foundation of the expression I Hermeneuticus that treats the other as an end in itself and not as an object. Here, under the aegis of the Gadamerian assumption that “the other not only has a right, but may also be right”, I intend to highlight and justify the centrality of otherness in the theory and praxis of philosophical hermeneutics. Philosophical understanding arises from the exercise of recognition of the rights of the other, but also of the reasons for their arguments, an exercise that generates important personal and social ethical implications as I will show. With this, I intend to show and substantiate the ethical face and function of philosophical hermeneutics hoping to consolidate the project of an Ethical Hermeneutics.