Charles Explorer logo
🇬🇧

Theology as a Lesson of Love at Emmanuel Lévinas

Publication |
2012

Abstract

The history of the European rationality reveals the thought as ceaselessly and always modifying object of its interest - in a hidden, yet substantial manner. Knowledge is born out of violence and as such means always manipulation and power.

Therefore to live ethically means to descend to these roots of knowledge and to reveal such phenomenal fields that refer to "otherwise-than-thinking". The transcendence as transcendence captures our attention just for our incapability of every objectivation.

Our answer to the transcendence is, thus, not any more a thought producing the knowledge, but ethics transcending our egoism. The theology is essentially not a scientific discipline, but education hat lead one to love.