Session 6
- Topics: Levinas Biography and Views on the “Ethical Relation,” Human Freedom, and Obligation to the Other
- Reading: Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism, 16-23.
- How does Levinas initially describe the “ethical relation?” How does he connect it with human freedom/sovereignty and obligation to the other?
- How does Levinas correlate ethics and moral relation with our vision of God? What are the implications of this claim?
- How does Levinas connect the notion of “ritual law” to “social justice?”