Section outline

  • 14. The concept of the Other in the thought of E. Levinas, the phenomenon of face and regard

    The next part of the lecture will present two examples of ethical thinking of 20th century philosophy. The first is the phenomenological ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, which he develops from a fundamental 'Self-Other' relationship based on the phenomenon of face and regard. Levinas does not create an ethical systém, but he seeks to capture the source of morality as such, which he sees in an intersubjective ethical relationship.