Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Existential Dilemma of Existence
You can exchange everything except existing. You're not my existence, my existing em my existing. So one of the things he argues against is reason that we think there's this solitude is just because this brute fact of existence. It's not because each one of us has an inner life that other people cannot grasp. And even though you might also have pain and anguish and a sense of your own death, you can't have my pain. I can't really express my pain to you.
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