ETHICS, EDUCATION AND OTHERNESS: THE EXPOSURE OF THE OTHER AT SCHOOL

Abstract

This paper presents the human vulnerability beyond all legal, religious or cultural empowerment that the human being has created to live in a fake perpetuity or «eternal life». The educational philosopher Joan Carles-Mèlich triggers the motivation at the beginning, inspired in one of the parables of the biblical gospels, calls the attention when considering ourselves outside our indulgencies or fake pietisms. In Mèlich way of thinking, we can find traces of a strong influence exerted by the Lithuanian, French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas, mostly, in the reality suffered by him in the Shoah or Nazi Holocaust. The text presents the ethical-compassion-otherness articulation from a biblical story The good Samaritan, to propose afterwards, coordinates of ethical relationship in the school, as of the exposure in front of others; exposure that pre-exists in all educational action.