[b]Emmanuel Levinas
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable. [/b]
Among other things, I beg to differ. But, sure, point taken.
I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is – and don’t be afraid of this word – love. And I mean it even with everything that burdens love or, I could say it better, responsibility is actually love, as Pascal said: ‘without concupiscence’ [without lust]… love exists without worrying being loved.
The perfect “general description” of…of what exactly?
In other words, without a context or a point of view.
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
The perfect “general description” of…of what exactly?
In other words, without a context or a point of view.
For others, in spite of myself, from myself.
Not much that doesn’t cover.
Providing, of course, we don’t try to actually pin it down.
…the “small goodness” from one person to his fellowman is lost and deformed as soon as it seeks organization and universality and system, as soon as it opts for doctrine, a treatise of politics and theology, a party, a state, and even a church. Yet it remains the sole refuge of the good in being.
What else [yet again] but the best of all possible worlds.
‘The true life is absent.’ But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.
Dare me to plug dasein into that!