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The Lesser Good - The Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas (Hardcover)
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The Lesser Good - The Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas (Hardcover)
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Western civilization is founded upon the assumption that there
exists a "natural order" to the world, an embedded principle of
justice with which human reason is aligned. The imagery is
seductive. However, Emil Fackenheim raises a troubling fact in his
To Mend the World when he names the Holocaust the "rupture that
ruptures philosophy." The Holocaust and countless other horrors
over thousands of years of eager philosophical pursuit could not
order the troublesome human soul to that state of justice that the
Plato claims to be the most natural and happy state of human
beings, if they can simply know their best interests. The
philosopher, physician to the human soul, has proven impotent in
healing the open ethical wound of human inhumanity; worse, the
grand ontological and epistemological structures that philosophers
have constructed may be linked to the ethical failures of the
planet, to colonial and imperial worldviews. The work of
post-Holocaust phenomenologist, Emmanuel Levinas, is written under
the somber backdrop of the Holocaust. Levinas, by his own
admission, stages a return to Plato. He shares Plato's sense of
ethical urgency in the philosophical task, but he sets course for a
new Platonism that thinks the difference separating (rather than
the unity gathering) being. Levinas, more than Plato, appreciates
that the exigencies and labor of everyday life can eclipse the
needs of others and waylay the ethical life. Levinas too holds out
more hope than Plato that the worst human beings can simply forget
themselves and their self-interested projects, and become their
brothers' keepers. Levinas quests for the good beyond being as he
challenges the tradition of Western thought and the post-Holocaust
world to a new ethos: we must decide between the starry skies above
(the ordered ontologies of the Western tradition) and the moral law
within. The Lesser Good represents a timely consideration of the
ethical exigencies of human life, politics, and justice,
demonstrating that philosophy's fa
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