The challenge of ethicity: an appropriation of self

Abstract

In this article we approach the relationship between autonomy and the becoming a subject, enable by a discussion regarding what ethicity can mean from a turn in its meaning. It is integrated by three pieces that demand extensive development, but here they have been proposed to show the articulating points of a reflection on the place of the ethics in societies where the economic aspect of capitalism is pre-eminent. To state that, by our way of being in the world, being-together, collectivity is a problem. Our main issue is the abandonment of the substantial and decisive for the futile, the trivial. The challenge is to break the blindness towards the barbarity that we are placed in, knowing that we face an institutional framework that promotes success in economic terms, as if the standard of living was the necessary and sufficient condition for happiness.