Totality and Infinity by Emmanuel Levinas

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Emmanuel Levinas in his 1961 book, Totality and Infinity, proposes that ethics is the first philosophy, that is, ethics is the part of our knowledge that can ground all the other fields of our knowledge. Typically metaphysics or the nature of reality is what is considered to be first philosophy but Levinas wants to overturn that notion.
Levinas argues that we need not approach the other in fear and hostility. The face of the other calls out to us and we are predisposed to approach with hospitality because we desire to transcend ourselves to experience the infinite.

Bibliography
Bergo, Bettina. ‘Emmanuel Levinas’. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Fall 2019. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2019. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/f....
Lévinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. 4e éd. Phaenomenologica 8. The Hague ; Boston : Hingham, MA: M. Nijhoff ; Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Boston, 1984.

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