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| Drawing by David Levine |
The essential concept of Transcendence in Levinas's philosophy, as it is a fact necessarily involved in the relationship with the other, from which reveals the Other. In this metaphysical ethics, the possibility of transcendence of the subject is achieved in the field of relationship with the otherness that is the relationship with the other, considered to transcendence as an ethical metaphysical allows the subject, in this case, the I through the other with which it relates, re-living, re-produce and achieve permanence in the present, according to this philosopher is the only time it is possible to defer to the death once it arrives there is no more time for the subject, no longer present.
For Levinas metaphysical transcendence or "... means a relationship with a reality infinitely distant from mine, but that distance yet destroy this relationship and not destroy this relationship that distance, as would occur in internal relations to Himself, without this relationship to become a presence in the Other and confusion with him without the relationship harms the very identity of yourself, your selfhood, without which eschews the apology, without this relationship becomes apostasy and ecstasy. "(Levinas, TI 65-66) In this sense significance that he proposes the philosopher, not implies that one term is subsumed in the other, but to maintain the separation between them, so that aggregation will not occur.
Should this aggregation to generate the unit she would be lost otherness, which is not considered simply as the reverse of the identity, or as a construction or form of resistance to it in the negative, before it has a positive meaning. "I absolutely Other is the Other," says Levinas. Argues that the significance, such as respect for the identity of the Self can not start from the negativity because it denied the denial and constitute a whole.
In Levinas's philosophical system, the idea of \u200b\u200bInfinity is the separation of Himself in relation to the Other, but not based on an antithesis but as we said, in a positive direction. The epiphany of the face is expressed, establishing the speech, I left the right idea, provides a notion of truth, it is beyond the idea that involves thinking and so is having the idea of \u200b\u200binfinity. This relationship is metaphysics therefore only intersubjective experience leads to transcendence.
For Levinas's metaphysics is the dimension of goodness, the desire for the absolutely Other, the defense of freedom, preventing the time of inhumanity. "Death to the invisible, here is the metaphysical" (Lévinas, ETI p. 58) The interesting thing about this thesis is that the metaphysical desire maintains condition of exteriority and otherness of the Other, which maintains the separation between the Self and the Other.
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