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Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Materiality Comes Out of Freedom, Right?

I didnot stand what he was meaning. He is explicit in saying that it's not that you have a body. I thought he it was exactly because you have no mean, he will say it's not a fall into body. But for him, materiality accompanies freedom. It's predicated upon freedom. In kant, it's like being chained to desire. Materiality comes out of freedom.

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