ABSTRACT

There is an element of utopia in an acceptance of something which cannot be manifest, but still guides moral actions eventually. There is no moral life without utopia is for morality what sanctity is for goodness. Excendence, therefore, promises that which is happy, worthy and social. It seems that a notion in which that which is happy, worthy and social may unite is the notion of an active utopia inspired by Baumanian analyses of ethics of the postmodern society. The metaphor of Levinasian Face refers to what is absent, to an order other than the one which we were given in a popular view of the world treated by empiricists as a foundation of all knowledge. This means that utopia conceived in this way involves an escape to something other than being, as well as a responsibility of an escape to something other than being. Skarga asserts: It is self-evident that Levinas stands for the second thesis. However, in order to present and describe an ethical relation, he has to employ new formulas of language.