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Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude

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The Dynamic of Consciousness

Mark on aan: In solitude there is this indissoluble unity. But then it looks like we get some kind of duality. Where as we're going to see, we're in knowledge and in other relationships with the supposedly outside world that he still thinks that we are reflected back to ourselves. There's something indirect there. So the dynamic of consciousness involves a longer and longer trip out from ourself to get absorbed in something else. When you serve again, you're doing the cartesian reflection on your own consciousness. What do you get? You get the present. The future is not yet. The past is no more. And those are what creates the distinction between ifit

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