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Death and Immortality in Plato and Lévinas The dominant tradition of Occidental metaphysics claims the question of being to be the most fundamental matter of thinking. Plato (or Plato's Socrates) is thus considered to be the moment when philosophy "proper" begins. Here the question of being is posed in a manner that is to determine the coming more than two thousand years of Occidental philosophical thinking. Taking up the twofold questions of death and immortality in Plato as he discusses in the dialogue Phaedo and relating them to the question of justice in the Republic, this paper attempts to read Plato again against the grain, this time in light of our contemporary ethical thinker Emmanuel Lévinas. Thus the transcendence of justice as Lévinas discusses in his works is shown to have resonated in Plato's idea of "Good beyond being". At stake is the transformation of the idea of philosophy itself which, as Philo-Sophia, is less concerned with the intrigue of being than with the transcendence of Good beyond being. If death is considered to be the innermost scandal of ontology-where the question is that of "to be or not to be"-then Philo-Sophia that is concerned with the transcendenc

Author

Saitya Brata Das

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2022

Language

EN