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What is Levinas on Self and Responsibility about?
1) Levinas argues that humans typically view themselves as isolated individuals who use others to serve their own needs and desires. However, encountering the face of another person challenges this view by revealing my inherent responsibility for the other. 2) For Levinas, moral obligation does not arise from reason or similarities between people, but from the absolute alterity or otherness of the other person that I can never fully comprehend. 3) This experience of the other
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- feliep
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