ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that dialogical ethics provides an excellent way to understand ethics from an experiential, everyday point of view. In other words, our personal ethics are formed by, and demonstrated in, the ways in which we dialogue with others. The difficulty with dialogical ethics, given its constant emphasis on the needs of the other, is that it has to be maintained, according to Levinas. Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator and contemporary of Buber, Rogers, and Levinas, left an indelible mark on educational practices. The word dialogue appears twice in this quotation from his landmark work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, published in 1970. As people think about playing the Game people might understand that Buber, Rogers, Levinas, and Freire are providing an escape from the lies, deceptions, and self-serving behavior in our daily relationships and interactions. Dialogical ethics also is difficult because, as Levinas pointed out, it can cause the other person to truly have power over us.
