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Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Existing Is the Work of Existing

If we leave monodology, we arrive at monism. Existing resists every relationship and multiplicity. It concerns no one other than the existent. Solitude appears neither as factual isolation of a robinson crusoe nor as the incommunicability of a content of conscous. To take up the existing in the existent is to enclose it within unity. And also, it'll turn out that existing, in a way, is prior to existence. Theyr monads it sort of appear like stars in the void, ruptures in the fabric of existing. Yes.

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