Abstract

This paper discusses the relationship between Levinas’ thought and the problem of sense . In this thought is central the struggle against contemporary nihilism. But the same philosophy of Levinas runs the risk of falling into a nihilistic solution. In his work, in fact, Levinas isn’t able to justify why the human being must be moral: he cannot expose, in other words, the sense of ethics. Therefore, his philosophical problem is to give not only the sense of an ethical behaviour, but also the sense of his ethical theory as a whole. And Levinas is unable to found it