Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is It Hypostasis?
To be something, rather than nothing, is to do the work of existing. And there's this sort of, like you said, tautological relationship where if you become a thing out of this vast, undifferentiated existing, then you are carving out a piece of solitude. As he says, the structure of this nwayis the story about this poor monad who's going to try to escape his or her isolation.
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