Emmanuel Levinas quotes
Emmanuel Levinas was a French philosopher best known for his work on ethics and the philosophy of the Other. His writings profoundly influenced continental philosophy, especially in the areas of ethics, phenomenology, and Jewish thought. He emphasized the primacy of ethical responsibility in human relationships. Here are 11 of his quotes:
The theory of transparency was set up in reaction to the theory of mental images, of an inner tableu which the perception of an object would leave in us. In imagination our gaze always goes outward, but imagination modifies and neutralizes the gaze: the real world appears in it as it were between parenthesis or quote marks.
Emmanuel Levinas
By asserting the objectivity of the physical world, naturalism identifies the existence and the conditions of existence of the physical world with existence and the conditions of existence in general. It forgets that the world of the physicist necessarily refers back, through its intrinsic meaning, through the subjective world which one tries to exclude from reality as being pure appearance, conditioned by the empirical nature of man, which is incapable of reaching directly to a world of things in themselves. But while the world of the physicist claims to go beyond naive experience, his world really exists only in relation to naive experience.
Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas
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Occupation: Philosopher
Born: January 12, 1906
Died: December 25, 1995
Quotes count: 11
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