Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Mystery of the Present
The present is a function that's a mastery of the exist over the existing, says levinas. This mastery over existing is synonymous with freedom and also with what he calls the virile power of the subject. The return to self consists in an inevitable departure from self - not only a departure from self but identity itself. In vlaar barblas: "To be occupied with yourself is to be bugging you with its desires"
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