
Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Hypostasis, Existence Without Existence, Solitude Is Our Existence
Lvinas: Solitude is our existence. How do we transcend solitude? One path we could take is knowledge. And that's where we as subjects, take objects and we incorporate them into ourselves. That's to get us there. Then he says, then there's extasis, which is where, instead of the object being incorporated into the subject, the subject gets incorporated into the object. Both of these result in disappearance of the other. Lvinas: I don't think we've gotte yet to attempts to get beyond ourselves, say, with knowledge, which doesn't work. But tmeta ultimately will be the erotic right where we can actually trans and our solitude without being
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