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The paper shows the role of the other in Gadamer's hermeneutics in the light of the idea of dialogue. Understanding requires the recognition of the other as a thou, the acceptance of the lack of distance from him and the openness to embrace what is said by him as a possible truth. Understanding has a dialectical structure that implies the cancellation of one's own expectations and the access to a more comprehensive knowledge. Even though every understanding is historical, it discloses an aspect of the thing itself which results from the interaction of the I and the thou during the process of hermeneutical conversation and constitutes a common truth that has analogous characteristics to practical reason. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The influence of Nietzsche's philosophy and the assumption of "the death of God" as a departure point in the contemporary philosophy disables the maintenance and development of the moral theory, understanding this one as a set of judgments that express a valuation of goodness or badness in an absolute way. As opposed to this perspective, a renewal of ethics, understood in an ampler sense than the moral conception, imposes. This paper analyzes the causes of the exhaustion of the moral discussion and presents the new perspective that is offered in ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]