Prospects of a Dusselian Ethics of Liberation among US Minorities: The Case of Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 6 (1):1-15 (2015)
Abstract
This paper proposes an application of Enrique Dussel’s ethics of liberation to an issue
of crucial importance to US minorities: the debate on affirmative action. Over the past
fifty years, this debate has been framed in terms of the opposition between advocates of affirmative action who claim that it is needed in order to achieve the integration and
participation of traditionally oppressed groups to society without which there is no
equality of rights, and critics who argue that affirmative action violates equality by
enforcing a double standard that undermines the ideal of a color-blind society. In this
paper, I show how the basic principles of Dussel’s ethical theory (which are best
expounded in his book Ethics of Liberation) allow us to address what I take to be the
main demands of both advocates and critics of affirmative action in a satisfactory way.
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