A ética da hospitalidade no acolhimento do outro

Abstract

In this research the aim is to discuss the issue of ethics of hospitality that still defies humanity, in the beginning of XXI century, with disorderly migration and global mobility caused by ethnic-racial and economic conflicts. The text is making a conceptual analysis about the conditional and unconditional hospitality with historical references, based on studies made by Kant, Levinas and Derrida. Kant formalized cosmopolitan rights where the conditions of the universal hospitality are restricted to the rights of access and that only benefit the citizens of the state; Levinas defends the ethics of alterity in which the welcoming is unrestricted and the one hosting has infinite responsibility for the other and that transcends the presence of a third party; and the proposal of Derrida to the concept of hospitality is from the perspective of deconstruction of it, translated into policy and legal opening to move forward on a new responsibility on the subject. In this exercise of understanding the conceptual reach of hospitality, is proposed an analysis of in questioner form and not conclusive about the unconditionality in ethics of Levinas, a contemporary perspective that puts us face to face with paradoxes that permeate the theme of hospitality.