The Possibility Of An Ethical Transcendental Philosophy In Levinas
| Autor: | Ciftci, Ahmet Erdem |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Popis: | This study aims to accomplish two tasks: First, it is argued that an &lsquo ethical transcendental philosophy&rsquo is possible with Levinas. Second, the concepts that bear this possibility to a philosophically acceptable level of cogency can be clarified. Philosopher&rsquo s position in history of philosophy suggests a kind of &lsquo externality&rsquo in the sense that he is not within the realm of very tradition. Levinas&rsquo predisposition is rather to employ what he calls &lsquo peri-phrases&rsquo that hinder the philosopher to settle in the existing structure of concepts (read as Greek language). This position can also be read as a resistance to dominating forms of knowledge. Levinas takes this attitude as an important point of resistance against Western metaphysics that puts the ontology at the center. Against this tradition, he celebrates both the &lsquo encounter with the Other&rsquo as a pilot point in ethics, one that all rest of which follows from, and the priority of &lsquo the Good&rsquo In such a way, &lsquo I&rsquo has been put into question in its gay independence without any reference to self contained totality, of the kind which is &lsquo self intelligible&rsquo This attachment that is infinition, of infinity helps us experience not a totality, but &lsquo otherwise than being&rsquo This attitute might resonate with the Kantian attempt displacing knowledge in order to make room for morality. However, a closer reading would notice that there is another agenda here, one that attempts to go to a status of pre-rationality, beyond rationality, so to speak an agenda that radicalizes the Kantian attempt. Derrida, a philosopher who showed that this attempt was just impossible, impossible in the sense that it was contaminated at the very beginning, skillfully benefits from the very inspiration Levinas has provided with. All these attempts and conceptual suggestions have been examined and analyzed, and the Levinasian inspiration has been tried to be elucidated. |
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