Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Limits of the Phenomenological Method
Levinos: I want to present solitude as a category of being, to show its place in a dialectic of being. The analysis i am about to undertake will not be anthropological, but ontological. And we should refresh what this talk of 'ontology' means here,. Ontological has to do with metaphysics generally, what types of beings exist. But as hydeger did, following phenomenology, you get the general types of being that you get.
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