K ROZLÍŠENIU MEDZI ONTOLÓGIOU A METAFYZIKOU U E. LÉVINASA

• Authors: Cepko Jaroslav

Title variants

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On Lévinas’ distinction between ontology and metaphysics

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

There are several terms in Levinas' philosophy, to which his reader better should not assign traditional meanings. The paper focuses on Levinas' usage of the terms 'ontology' and 'metaphysics', which reveal the philosopher's attempt to find their new interpretations. In his perspective, both terms become synonyms of the key concepts of his philosophy. In the context of Levinas' criticism of Western philosophical tradition, 'ontology' refers to totalization, i.e. a philosophy aiming at a unity, but at the same time denying the alterity of the other. 'Metaphysics', on the other hand, expresses transcendence leading to plurality and cherishing the otherness. Levinas finds its formal structure in Descartes' idea of the infinity in us and its tangible expression in the ethical attitude towards the other. Consequently, the term 'first philosophy' should be attributed to ethics, not as a normative and casuistic discipline, but as a relation to the other in his otherness, which the philosophy as the 'love for wisdom' transforms into the 'wisdom of love'.

Keywords

EN

ALTERITY; LEVINAS; METAPHYSICS; ONTOLOGY; TOTALIZATION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 652-663
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cepko Jaroslav

• Mgr. Jaroslav Cepko, PhD., Katedra filozofickych vied FHV UMB, Tajovskeho 40, 974 01 Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic

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CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA093912