Faith (believing in the other) as the foundation of legitimacy in Enrique Dussel's political liberation thought.

Abstract

In the development of Dussel's politics of liberation, the issue of faith (belief in the other)
linked to that of legitimacy is central to the problematization of the construction of the new
order. Dussel reflects on the conditions of possibility for overcoming the current order and
the construction of a system with a critical claim to greater justice. Our author indicates that
every system or Totality goes through three moments: 1) the classic moment, of system
stability, where the claim of justice is fulfilled; 2) the declining moment of the system, where
the pretense of justice is not fulfilled; 3) the moment of the construction of the new system,
whose condition of possibility is the conformation of the critical consensus that puts in
between said the legitimacy of the Law. In the present investigation we will show the
meaning of faith (believing in the other) in the Enrique Dussel's political liberation thought
and what are its implications regarding the legitimacy of the Law and the construction of the
new political system in force with a critical claim for greater justice. In this sense, we will
show that accepting the word of the Other, due to the proximity of the face-to-face, is faith
(believing in the Other), the foundation of legitimacy in the politics of liberation as the
construction of the new order. It will be carried out from the symmetrical dialogue between
the victims of the current political system, the ultimate consequence of which is the
institutionalization of the new legitimacy in the new system, which has become the new
Law.