Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Solution to Idealism Is Not All the Things That Some Path Through Reason, but Rather This Experience With the Absolute Other
"The solution to idealism is not all the things that some path through reason, but rather this encounter with the mystery," he says. "Once we have this relationship to something that is pure alterity to death, now we have the problem of how we can continue to be a subject." He asks: 'How do we persevere in the face of our inevitable subjection to our passivity before death?'
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