Eros and Ethics: Levinas's Reading of Plato's ‘Good Beyond Being’
This paper addresses the notorious logic and semantic difficulties encountered by Lévinas in articulating his ethics of alterity. Tracing the philosophical genesis of this question in Descartes and Heidegger, it recognises Lévinas's claim that there can be no ontological foundation for ethics b...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Sage
2006
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Studies in Christian ethics
Год: 2006, Том: 19, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 205-222 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Lévinas
B нерационально B Plato B Good B Эрос (понятие) |
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| Итог: | This paper addresses the notorious logic and semantic difficulties encountered by Lévinas in articulating his ethics of alterity. Tracing the philosophical genesis of this question in Descartes and Heidegger, it recognises Lévinas's claim that there can be no ontological foundation for ethics because ontology would reduce ethics to a form of mathematical ratio. Lévinas is unwilling to deny his phenomenological experience of a desire for goodness and unable to deny his despair at his ontological alienation from the good and so he is driven to seek an irrational link between the human being and a metaphysical ‘good beyond being’. Retrieving an ancient gnostic neo-Platonist working of the same problem from the work of Hans Jonas, the paper reconsiders Lévinas's reading of Plato, specifically his understanding of Socrates’ exposition of erosin the Phaedo, in order to illustrate how his ethics of alterity may allow the human being to refer irrationally to the good beyond being. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946806066151 |