[The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the other]9장 정리

Levinas, Derrida and Others vis-à-vis by John Llewelyn

 

For Kant, “The other person is to be respected, only because the other person is a rational agent, and he is a rational agent only in so far as he personifies the moral law and is capable of exercising a freedom to refrain from following rules of behavior that could not be universally followed or willed. By the same standard the agent is entitled and obliged to respect himself” (136-137p)

Kant : The metaphysics of ethics is a foundation of justice.

Levinas: The ethical is a condition of justice, not a foundation.

Therefore, the ethical is Kantian deontological morality vs. teleological morality of self-interest and general interest. (both ontological)

 

The ethical of levinas : Prior to all structures. It is the superlation of passivity. Because it is prior to the third person.

l  What is prior to the third-personal point of view.