Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Impossibility of the Possibility
Pain and sorrow are the things that bring you back to yourself, he writes. He says it's the very irremissibility of being. Yet by becoming pure suffering what pain does is it makes you aware of that responsibility. This is the important pathway out of solitude - but you have to go through the prism of your own death to get there.
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