Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2016
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
More Levinas, working this time through Time and the Other (1948). What is it for a person to exist? What individuates one person from another, making us into selves instead of just part of the causal net of events? Why would someone possibly think that these are real, non-obvious questions that need to be addressed?
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| 0:36.4 | who at one point said on doing philosophy for living, |
| 0:38.7 | but then thought better of it. |
| 0:39.8 | Our question for episode 146 is something like, |
| 0:43.2 | what is our place in the universe, or maybe what is time to us? |
| 0:46.6 | And we read Emmanuel Levinas' Time and the Other from 1948. |
| 0:51.7 | This is a follow-up on our episode 145, where we started with a little bit of that, |
| 0:56.6 | plus some other things by Levinas. |
| 0:58.1 | This is Mark Linton-Meyer, |
| 0:59.2 | in chained with self and medicine Wisconsin. |
| 1:03.6 | This is Wes L. Wun, ruptured from the anonymous vigilance of the There Is in Post-Gestuses. |
| 1:09.6 | Wow, this is Seth Pascon, |
| 1:11.4 | hypothesized to freedom in Austin, Texas. |
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