Overcoming Relativism? Levinas's Return to Platonism
Emmanuel Levinas's concept of “the face of the Other” involves an ethical mandate that is presumably transcultural or, in his terms, “precultural.” His essay “Meaning and Sense” provides his most explicit defense of the idea that the face has a meaning that is not culturally relative, though it...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2000
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2000, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-117 |
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Phenomenology
B Relativism B Absolute B Meaning B Culture B Other |
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