Etika dužnosti i susret sa bližnjim: Imanuel Kant i Emanuel Levinas
Duty Ethics and Meeting Imminent: Immanuel Kant and Emmanuel Levinas

Summary/Abstract: Kant and Levinas are two prominent modern philosophers of ethic who have totally different views of the origin of moral. As a "rational being" with a .free will", a human being is – according Kant - an "autonomous moral subject" and one's own lawgiver. In opposition to this, Levinas emphasizes that morality originates from outside. through the encouncter with "the other" This means that it is not one's inner consciousness, but the face of the other" that appeals to and motivates moral action. This article is an attempt to compare the two views tin relation to a possible foundation of universal moral principles.

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