Achtenberg's article 15.1
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Achtenberg's article 15.1
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Plato and Levinas on Violence and the Other
Abstract
In this essay, I shall describe both Plato and Levinas as philosophers of the other, and delineate their similarities and differences on violence. In doing so, I will open up for broader reflection two importantly contrasting ways in which the self is essentially responsive to—as well as vulnerable to violence from—the other. I will also suggest a new way of situating Levinas in the history of philosophy, not, as he himself suggests, as one of the few in the history of philosophy who has aphilosophy of the other but, instead, as one of a number of 20th century philosophers who turn to pre-modern thinkers for aid in critiquing early modern thought on a variety of topics, including whether the self is essentially closed or, instead, vulnerable, open and responsive to what is outside it.
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15.1 (Spring/Printemps 2011)
Pages
170-190
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“Achtenberg's article 15.1,” Symposium, accessed May 4, 2024, http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/symposium/items/show/21.