Ética do diálogo e o princípio político do comum

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the dialogical ethics proposed by the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber (1923) and the political principle of the common, formulated by the authors Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval (2017) as an alternative to understanding the problem of relationships in contemporary neoliberal society. Buber, in his main work entitled I and Thou (1923), presents the two words-principles that underlie our existence and are inherent to the human condition, namely: the I-Thou and the I-It. The first presents itself as a dialogic relationship, an encounter between two beings mutually in an ontological character, and the second as a monogical relationship, based on experiences, use, and the use of individuals as mere objects, with an objectifying character. In this way, if the world of It predominates and guides the ways in which men relate to each other, this would lead them to perdition, as such men would be lost within themselves, that is, drastically disconnecting them from interhuman relationships in the circle of dialogic coexistence, causing a profound loss of the feeling of community, solidarity, with commodified and impersonal relationships. Considering this scenario, the political principle of the common appears as an alternative to the neoliberal system of control, as it is a political principle whose rationality is collective, anti-capitalist, and a common social sphere belonging to all, where there is no mischaracterization of the humanity of men. In this sense, the political principle of the common joins the Buberian in facing the challenges that are configured with the neoliberal system. From this diagnosis, our objective is to elucidate the need to rescue the dialogicity of relationships in contemporary times, seeking possible paths for a healthy and humanized society, proposing as an alternative the inspiration on the ethics of dialogue formulated by Martin Buber together with the political principle of the common, formulated by the authors Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, as a new worldwide anti-capitalist rationality where the social imaginary is a reality of collective practices, opposing, therefore, the neoliberal rationality that maintains its system at the expense of a decharacterized experience in the name of the success of the capital, where it explores, instigates and legitimizes a feeling of competition to the detriment of solidarity and companionship, deepening the contemporary individualism. This study involves relating authors belonging to different philosophical traditions through exploratory, philosophical, and bibliographic analyzes to demonstrate that, unlike neoliberalism, the dialogical ethics and the political principle of the common aspire to a healthy and dialogic experience.