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This summary provides the key points from the document in 3 sentences: Levinas argues that Western philosophy since Socrates has been characterized by ontology, which reduces the other to the same through concepts, concealing the unique ethical relation to the individual other. He asserts that ontology leads to tyranny and war by subordinating the relationship to the other to a totalizing comprehension of being. Levinas proposes moving beyond totality through a view of "infinity" produced in the relationsh

Author

Emanuel Dueljz

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