
Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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We're Stuck in This Tof Insomnia, This Vigilance Without End
Gavorfenhit is as if the existent appeared only in an existence that precedes it. The person i am is dependent on this whole world of existing people and things that i'm thrown into. There's thing out there that preceded us that we cannot take as an object. We cannot master through knowledge. We cannot control. Right before we get here, there's a whole world out there. Those forces shape who we are. They determine who we become. It's the foreman of the forces. And it creates a certain sense of unease. Because at the periphery of our consciousness, or in the back of our mind, we have this awareness that there is something which
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