I finished reading The Origins of Responsibility by François Raffoul earlier this week. There are definitely quite a few take aways for me. The biggest which I mentioned in a previous post, is the correlation between how we conceive of being and how we then conceive of ethics, and vice a versa. It is interesting […]

Emmanuel Levinas on holiness: [T]o the questin “What is the ethical?” Levinas answered: “It is the recognition of holiness.” And what is holiness? When “the fundamental trait of being is the preoccupation that each particualr being has with his being”—when “plants, animals, all living thing strive to exist,” when for each one “it is the […]

I have finally finished the work Totality & Infinity by Emmanuel Levinas. It has taken me many months to finish, partly due to the fact that it has been extremely difficult to understand. I definitely would like to further investigate his philosophy, because it seems like there are some gems within it. But for now […]