
Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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I Am a Child, Not a Son, but a Friend of the Son
I think we have to think more broadly than just having children, because when we talk about fecundity, thinking about creativity in general. There's a moment of mastery in creativity, but there's also a moment of passivity where i let the object be itself. In a sense, shakespeare's characters do come alive. They are not simply products of his ogenda, let's say. I was just looking at page 91, this kind of long description of paternity is the relationship with a stranger who entirely well being other is myself. And then goes on negatively. The son is not simply my work, like a poem in art ifect es, not my property. Neither the
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