Emmanuel Levinas
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Emmanuel Levinas was a 20th-century Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher who developed influential ideas about ethics and human responsibility, particularly emphasizing our obligation to others and how encounters with other people should shape how we think and live. His work matters because it offers a major philosophical perspective on what makes actions right or wrong, grounded in the idea that recognizing our responsibility to other people is more fundamental than traditional questions about being or knowledge.
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Emmanuel Levinas (born Emanuelis Levinas /ˈlɛvɪnɑːs/; French: [ɛmanɥɛl levinas]; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology.
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1906 births1995 deaths20th-century educational theorists20th-century French historians20th-century French male writers20th-century French philosophers20th-century French theologians20th-century Lithuanian philosophersAcademic staff of the University of FribourgAcademic staff of the University of ParisAcademic staff of the University of Poitiers