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Jan 11, 2018 · This chapter proceeds by examining Levinas’s writings on education, considering in particular how Levinas’s ethical subject emerges. The first part of the chapter focuses on Levinas’s claim that we are in a crisis of humanism, a crisis that calls for a new subjectivity. This claim and ensuing argument can be found in both his writings on ...
transcending all existing rules. According to Levinas, the ethics of responsibil-ity precede all human freedoms and regulations. When critically analyzed, Levinas’ concept of responsibility provides an inspiration for the ethical actions of a teacher at school. Emmanuel Levinas emphasizes teaching specifically in
- Kosmas Sobon
- 2018
Jun 24, 2021 · ONLINE TEACHING AND THE ETHICAL DEMAND. Teaching is not only the mere transmission of knowledge but is also dependent on the specific relation between the teacher and the student, a relation that has an ethical nature and highlights that teaching is not an abstract concept, but is a practical, real-life relation between two (or more) unique ...
- Martine Berenpas
- 2021
Feb 9, 2022 · As Levinas continues, “Teaching is not a species of a genus called domination, a hegemony at work within a totality, but is the presence of infinity breaking the closed circle of totality.” To be fair, what he is talking about here is not the equivalent teaching at a university, and being taught in this sense is not the equivalent of being ...
- stephen.hancock@byuh.edu
- Professor
May 12, 2015 · Several books centered on Levinas and education have also appeared in recent years (e.g. Strhan, 2012; Todd, 2003a ). The welcoming of Levinas to the field of the philosophy of education is situated in the historical context of neoliberalism and the quest for certainty, uniformity, and accountability. Levinas’s philosophy gives educational ...
- Guoping Zhao
- 2016
May 7, 2018 · Responsibility is one of the most important attitudes for people in relation to others. Human existence becomes meaningful if it realizes that responsibility for others and one takes it as an invitation to act ethically. Emmanuel Levinas has shared his thoughts on responsibility in his writings and works. Although Levinas’ ethics of responsibility come across as metaphysical, his thinking is ...
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teaching and not learning, and the student is learning and not teaching. Without this asymmetry, there may well be no learning or teaching. So how might we describe this asymmetry? Levinas’s notion of the other provides a good way of describing the relationship between people in asymmetric relations. Levinas paints the asymmetry by taking a
