ABSTRACT
This article is a second movement of the reflection on Hermeneutics as ethics woven around the coinage, description andfoundation of the expression I Hermeneuticus that treats the other as an end in itself and not as an object. Here, under the aegis of the Gadamerian assumption that “the other not only has a right, but may also be right ”, I intend to highlight and justify the centrality of otherness in the theory and praxis ofphilosophical hermeneutics. Philosophical understanding arises from the exercise ofrecognition of the rights of the other, but also of the reasons for their arguments, an exercise that generates important personal and social ethical implications as I will show. With this, I intend to show and substantiate the ethical face and function of philosophical hermeneutics hoping to consolidate the project of an Ethical Hermeneutics.
Keywords:
Hermeneutics; Gadamer; Ethics; Alterity; Law