
Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Other Is Already There, Is There Any Other?
Lovingus is not offering a different path to authenticity through the other verses, through the self. So he genuinely means something when he talks about salvation and transcendence that's somehow different throm this notion of authenticity. By being individuals, we're already transcended tha there is. But apparently, apparently we get a recapitulation of the there is here. Physical suffering is being stuck in the present, stuck in materiality. It's like that eternal vigilance. And so it's sort of the self, in its connection to itself, i seeming really breakable. That you get lost into suffering, you're not referring to self. You're not saying, woe is me.
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