Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There Any Other Departure From the Synonymous Existing?
There's no way to become a conscious being or a subject other than to tear yourself away, through the act of self consciousness, from the sanonymous existing. There is the anonymous existing, or solitude and subjectivity. Those are the only two options. I don't now if we can say more by why solitude is implicated in that. The existent has this sort of mastery over existing as a property, as an attribute.
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