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...

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Auteur principal: George, Siby K. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Dharmaram College 2008
Dans: Journal of Dharma
Année: 2008, Volume: 33, Numéro: 3, Pages: 259-276
Sujets non-standardisés:B Ethics
B Levinas
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Résumé:‘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.
ISSN:0253-7222
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma