
Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is Death the Impossibility of Possibility?
Seth wereat: If you call death the impossibility of possibility, and you turn it into that thing that you use to self generate your own authentic ity, your raifying it in the same way we were discussing earlier about existing as a verb. Heideger's criticism of heydeger is that he's established already that you cannot transcend solitude through that type of mastery. And with levinos, you don't master the idea. You come up against something before which you are totally powerless and passive. That's its importance. Seth wereat: For levinos,. it's the impossibility of nothingness. But for hydeger, you master the idea of your own
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