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The paper deals with a type of whole and a part that can be found in Aquinas' work and to which no attention has been paid so far. This type of whole and a part can be called metaphysical whole and metaphysical part, respectively. In the paper, metaphysical whole and a part are put forth on the problem of the logical and metaphysical structure of a common nature.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2014
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vol. 42
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issue 2
103-116
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The article has to do with the issue of war and violence in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. According to him war is not only a traumatic historical event, but also a peculiar ontological state resulting from the peculiar way of thinking of Europeans. He considers how war is connected with the notions of whole, identity, and objectivity, why history is at fault, and why the only solution is eschatology, which challenges individuals and calls them to responsibility. The relationship between war and morality is at the center of the thought of Levinas. He sensitizes the reader to the fact that war is always a latent possibility, a constant hidden threat, always unexpected. War, as well as violence and force broadly understood, always change the world order, and with it accepted principles, rules, and values. It is an event that seeks to eliminate otherness, that tends to a uniform whole by leveling differences. Pluralism must give way to the totalizing aspirations of war.
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