ETIKA TANGGUNG JAWAB EMMANUEL LEVINAS

This article aims to know and critically analyze the ethical responsibilities of Levinas. He gives a new concept of responsibility. For him, ethics is the first philosophy. The ethics of Levinas's responsibilities must be understood in a metaphysical aspect. The research method used is literatu...

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Main Author: Kosmas Sobon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Gadjah Mada 2018-02-01
Series:Jurnal Filsafat
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Online Access:https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/wisdom/article/view/31281
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Summary:This article aims to know and critically analyze the ethical responsibilities of Levinas. He gives a new concept of responsibility. For him, ethics is the first philosophy. The ethics of Levinas's responsibilities must be understood in a metaphysical aspect. The research method used is literature research using hermeneutics method. The essence of Levinas’s responsibility: responsibility as an existential fact, nonnormative, for the others, substitutional, the essential structure of subjectivity, a basis for existence, the responsibility of humanizing himself, and responsibilities make me unique from others. The ethics of Levinas's responsibilities have two characters: concrete and asymmetric.
ISSN:0853-1870
2528-6811