Solitude and reason: from solipsism to relational structure of knowledge in Lévinas

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https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.v8i3.60479

Keywords:

Ontology, Phenomenology, Solipsism, Relationship, Otherness

Abstract

The article examines the understanding levinasian about the philosophical categories fron reason and solitude. Aims to show that, traditionally, solitude and reason have always been considered from a dialectic of being. Solitude proved to loved as a prison, an impossibility out of herself and was described as an aspiration to learn, while transcendence within immanence itself, leading to what they lack. Advocates that, in Levinas, philosophy does not involve an aspiration, which corresponds to the reduction of the Other to the Same and solitude will not be broken by the knowledge, adjusting the outside to the inside, while the work of solipsistic reason. Therefore, in levinasian phenomenology, one glimpses the possibility of rupture as solipsistic reason, which will now be described as a relational structure, in which knowledge implies a collective and open work, which aims to overcome desire and seek new horizons through the relationship with the Other.

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Author Biography

Marcos Alexandre Alves, Universidade Franciscana - UFN

Doutor em Educação pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Professor do Curso de Filosofia, do Mestrado em Ensino de Humanidades e Linguagens e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Ensino de Ciências e Matemática da Universidade Franciscana - UFN.

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2022-11-14

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Alves, M. A. (2022). Solitude and reason: from solipsism to relational structure of knowledge in Lévinas. Aufklärung, 9(2), p.121–130. https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.v8i3.60479

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022): May-August

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