Abstract
This article asks how Husserl, Scheler, and Heidegger developed such strategies that promote human life as an authentic one and confronts the result with Levinas’ position. The starting point in Husserl, Scheler, and Heidegger is that human existence in its normal status is ‘perverted’.
Husserl, Scheler, and Heidegger try to determine normality as a status in which the self has already leaped over itself towards the other. While they begin with a fusion between the self and the other Levinas holds that the first is separation: the egoism of life.