Six Problems in Levinas's Philosophy

PhaenEx 7 (1):30-40 (2012)
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Levinas’s constitutive analysis conflicts with his phenomenological descriptions. There are problems in his essential theses: Recognizing alterity is recognizing wants and needs. These are said to be unending, infinite. The wholly Other—God—is constitutive of the alterity of the other human. Ethics originates in Jewish religious history. Ethical absoluteness conflicts with political responsibility

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Alphonso Lingis
Catholic University of Louvain

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The Environment.Alphonso Lingis - 2010 - Levinas Studies 5:65-81.

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