Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life by Putnam Hilary

Author:Putnam, Hilary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

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Levinas on What Is Demanded of Us

Levinas survived the Second World War under difficult and humiliating circumstances,1 while his family, with the exception of his wife and daughter, perished. These experiences may well have shaped Levinas’s sense that what is demanded of us is an “infinite” willingness to be available to and for the other’s suffering. “The Other’s hunger—be it of the flesh, or of bread—is sacred; only the hunger of the third party limits its rights,” Levinas states in the preface to Difficult Freedom. To understand fully what Levinas means here would be to understand his whole philosophy. I want to attempt a beginning at such an understanding.

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