Essential Vulnerabilities
In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. Nonetheless, Achtenberg argues, Plato and Levinas are different. Though they...
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| description | In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. Nonetheless, Achtenberg argues, Plato and Levinas are different. Though they share the view that human beings are essentially vulnerable and essentially in relation to others, they conceive human vulnerability and responsiveness differently. For Plato, when we see beautiful others, we are overwhelmed by the beauty of what is, by the vision of eternal form. For Levinas, we are disrupted by the newness, foreignness, or singularity of the other. The other, for him, is new or foreign, not eternal. The other is unknowable singularity. By showing these similarities and differences, Achtenberg resituates Plato in relation to Levinas and opens up two contrasting ways that self is essentially in relation to others. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-360442025-07-31T09:55:02Z Essential Vulnerabilities Achtenberg, Deborah Philosophy Emmanuel Levinas God Hippias Meno Phaedrus (dialogue) Plato Socrates thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. Nonetheless, Achtenberg argues, Plato and Levinas are different. Though they share the view that human beings are essentially vulnerable and essentially in relation to others, they conceive human vulnerability and responsiveness differently. For Plato, when we see beautiful others, we are overwhelmed by the beauty of what is, by the vision of eternal form. For Levinas, we are disrupted by the newness, foreignness, or singularity of the other. The other, for him, is new or foreign, not eternal. The other is unknowable singularity. By showing these similarities and differences, Achtenberg resituates Plato in relation to Levinas and opens up two contrasting ways that self is essentially in relation to others. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-07-10 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:31 2020-04-01T12:36:14Z 2016-12-31 book 1000242 OCN: 1076638326 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29703 9780810129948 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36044 eng Rereading Ancient Philosophy open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29703/1/1000242.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29703/1/1000242.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29703/1/1000242.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29703/1/1000242.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29703/1/1000242.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29703/1/1000242.pdf Northwestern University Press 10.2307/j.ctv3znz3r 10.2307/j.ctv3znz3r 48d591b9-fcc1-45f5-8079-0e9222a4efeb Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780810129948 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Evanston, Illinois 101386 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection open access |
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