Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Impossibility of Nothingness
Suffering brings you towards the idea that your existence is the work of your existing. In suffering, there is an absence of all refuge. It is made up of the impossibility of fleeing or retreating. The unknown of death signifies that the very relationship with death cannot take place in the light that the subject is in relationship with what does not come from itself. That's the first thing that's truly other.
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