Veritas (Jan 2017)

Cuatro claves antropológicas en humanismo del otro hombre de Emmanuel Levinas = Four anthropological concepts on Levinas’ humanism of the other

  • Delgadillo, Jorge Medina

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 62, no. 1
pp. 4 – 16

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This article explains the thought of Emmanuel Levinas in his work Humanism of the Other around four key issues: identity, relationship, freedom and transcendence. Opposed to the position of Nietzsche and other modern philosophers about each of these issues, Levinas present a paradoxical solution to these four major anthropological keys that serve as the basis for developing a theory of justice: identity will be understood as vulnerability; the relationship as heteronomy; freedom as diakonia and Work; ethics as the fundamental religious experience

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