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Useless Suffering- Emannuel Levinas
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- Phil 2306 (PHIL2306)
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11/12/24, 4:40 PM OneNoteUseless Suffering- Emmanuel Levinas
Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:10 PM
Phenomenological Ethics
What is the lived experience of suffering?
One way to approach an 'understanding' of suffering is through phenomenological ethics which
prioritizes the first-person perspective as 'ineminable'
Because, for Levinas, any explanation of suffering is "impossible and odious"
Our attention to the suffering of others elevates us
Suffering is precisely an evil for the way it rips into us and overwhelms our humanity
The experience of being-called is exactly the same as suffering
From the interhuman perspective, sufering cn thus be "meaingful in m"
We are required so urgently, we can't wait for God without letting ourselves down
We cause the suffering= we have to address the suffering
Theodicy and the End of Theodicy
Isn't suffering sometimes useful?
Political Teleolocy
Takes one's own wellebe
Those justifying the suffering of others are doing it to alleviate their own suffering.
The attempt to make anihilation reasonable or explainable has become unthinkable
It's not nature's plan, but what we have done
Levinas rejects religion and politics to explain suffering
The human morality of goodness- compassion and love,
Lived commitment . to keeping faith with the others,
It is a high calling to a difficult faith and a difficult freedom
Philosophy, Justice,Love
"The face of the Other is perhaps the beginning of philosohy
"Let us speak instead of taking upon oneself the face of the other
Justice, takes precedence over takingupon oneself of the fate of the other.
I must judge, where before I was to assume responsibilities
The face is the "Thou Shall not Kill"
Our ethical relationsa re asymmetrical
One responsibility more: the responsibility for the other
Where the interpersonal is impossible, then we have a totalitarian state
Election is a responsibility
The I always has one more responsibility than the others
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