How many have lost a loved one in the Colombian war? 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. 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 shows 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. 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.