Abstract

The present work gives an account of an Ethics of weakness in the hermeneutical thought of the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo. The article highlights that, in his proposal, called “weak thinking”, the bases are provided for a defense, respect and recognition of cultural differences in the context of postmodernity and that it ends up involving minorities. Arguments that I observe in different moments of his textual production, accentuating the passage from the ontological to the ethical. I try to answer three fundamental questions: 1. What is the Debolist Ethics that emerges from the Nihilist Hermeneutics of Vattimo? 2. How does this Ethics respond to the postmodern condition, today in its multicultural phase; that builds differences, minorities, and pluralities? 3. How can cultural differences be interpreted from the hermeneutical horizon in which Gianni Vattimo is inserted?