PELA PARáBOLA DO BOM SAMARITANO: UMA éTICA GLOBAL

from the starting point of a consensus on global ethics, it is wondered which are the conditions for such ethics, based on the good samaritan parable. (luke 10, 25-37). in the context of this parable we can identify the necessary elements in order to define a global ethics, regarding also the thought of the philosophers levinás and cortina, which serves as a basis for a phenomenological reading of the parable. this way, new conceptualizations about life styles can be made, lifestyles represented by the different characters that play a role in the parable, whether real or fictional. thus, we confirm the existence of a relation between global ethics and the parable, because the later is proposed a an ethics of maxims, from neo- testamentaryaretology to the axiological visualization leading the way to the affirmation of an eschatological life also initiated in the earthly life.