Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is the Present a Mean of Consciousness?
For consciousness to work, you must be able to have a notion of a moment where the subject grasps the object. The present as an ontological moment means that consciousness needs that for its function. So i think he's channelling bergson. I think this is one of his analyses of time, that the present presents itself as a creative force. But we're talking about the event of hypostasis when we talk about the present and that context we're not supposed to experience.
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