Emmanuel Levinas thought model
Lithuania / France · 1906–1995
A thinker who placed the face of the other, responsibility, and ethics as first philosophy.
Perspective
Ethics appears, before any abstract principle, as the responsibility to respond to the other in front of you.
Value model
Individual agency30
Rational inquiry55
Risk awareness60
Social conformity62
Self-overcoming85
Practicality18
Language skepticism70
Decision principles
- Are you erasing the face of the other?
- Have your words become a way of fleeing responsibility?
- Who is the one you are called to answer?