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- Levinas, a French philosopher, turned the conventional understanding of ethics on its head by suggesting that our primary moral obligation is not to a set of rules, but directly to other people.
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Jul 23, 2006 · Some commentators have called Levinas’ work an ethics of ethics, others a meta-ethics, while still others have urged that his thought can accommodate many ethical theories, from intuitionism to rationalism (see below). However that may be, his work is in ongoing, critical dialogue with three philosophers: Husserl, Heidegger, and Hegel.
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We often think of our identity as something internal, a product of our thoughts and experiences. However, Levinas suggests that our selfhood is actually shaped in the ethical response to the Other. It is in the act of taking responsibility for someone else that we truly come to understand ourselves.
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Sep 18, 2009 · In Emmanuel Levinas on the Priority of Ethics: Putting Ethics First, Shaw suggests that Levinas scholarship increasingly has concerned itself with questions of language and epistemology, and consequently has lost sight of what Levinas’s philosophy is really about, namely ethics.
Nov 11, 2021 · In this paper, building on Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy, we argue that ethics should be understood as a distinct dimension of the complex and multidimensional phenomenon of sociality; a dimension of radical otherness that intertwines with but does not reduce to the intersubjective dynamics of social life.
- Fabrice Métais, Mario Villalobos
- 2021
Feb 23, 2009 · How well does Levinas' ethics of responsibility deal with the patterns of exclusion and structural violence that make the most vulnerable others the least often seen or heard? It may be the case that even the desire to murder confirms the alterity of the other.
Levinas and the Ethical Dimensions of Desire. M. Jamie Ferreira. ABSTRACT. Levinas himself raises the question: "why would I feel responsible in presence of the Face" since "we are separate ontological beings?" This tions the character of our response to the other - both in terms of agency and motivation.
Jul 23, 2006 · If ethics means rationalist self-legislation and freedom (deontology), the calculation of happiness (utilitarianism), or the cultivation of virtues (virtue ethics), then Levinas's philosophy is not an ethics. Levinas claimed, in 1961, that he was developing a “first philosophy.”
