How many have lost a loved one in the war in Colombia? How much indifference to these facts? It is necessary to accept as our own the responsibility of denaturalizing these violences. This is what Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas did, two Jewish philosophers who lived and wrote at a time when the Jewish identity posed a death threat. Nevertheless, they did not remain silent; instead, they invited us to be critical of reality, not with a thirst for revenge, but with an ethical call that transcends to the non-repetition of the totalitarian violence they witnessed.This text presents a critical reconstruction of the arguments of both philosophers on violence, in order to study what this phenomenon means from a political and interpersonal perspective. An argument is constructed about the request to be agents for the recognition of the other, making explicit the elements that constitute us as persons, in order to evaluate the effects of a violent act on the identity of victims and victimizers. This work seeks to defend the thesis of a fundamental violence in order to answer the following question: what is behind the beginning of all violence? It also extends an invitation to the reader to assume the responsibility of recognizing the other as a first act of non-violence.