THE OTHER’S DIFFERENCE AND ETHICS OF PLURALISM IN LEVINAS
‘Integration’ - national, global, or communal - is necessitated primarily by the exigencies of ‘difference’, manifested either in hideous forms of hatred and violence, or in more subtle forms of grudging toleration and frozen interaction. It is from an awareness of difference, arising from varieties...
| Published in: | Journal of Dharma |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
2008
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| In: |
Journal of Dharma
Year: 2008, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 259-276 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Levinas |
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| Summary: | ‘Integration’ - national, global, or communal - is necessitated primarily by the exigencies of ‘difference’, manifested either in hideous forms of hatred and violence, or in more subtle forms of grudging toleration and frozen interaction. It is from an awareness of difference, arising from varieties of social categories like sex, colour, race, caste, tribe, language, and religion, and the abjectly damaging consequences of personal as well as social interpretation of the significance of such differences that the goal of integration gathers urgency in a nation’s priorities and an individual’s value system. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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