Study Of Levinas' The Other Issue

Levinas, the first philosopher who introduced phenomenology into France, was one of the representative thinkers on the contemporary western philosophical trends and the unique moralist in the contemporary ideological circle in a way. His academic thoughts have been receiving extensive attention in the west, which are attracting more and more concern among domestic scholars in recent years as well. Owing to researchers'different theory visual angles, value orientation, and issue consciousness, however, the present study on their thoughts are still short of systematicness, comprehensive and deep quality. Besides, it's difficult to fully explore its theoretical value. This dissertation, following his concerned issue of"the other", makes a systematical research and overall grasp of Levinas'ethical thoughts of"for the other"so that explores his theoretical character and value by examining these thoughts within the visual field of western cultural criticism in the 20th century. Levinas regards the thoughts of Judaism and ancient Greek philosophy as his theoretical foundation; chooses the situation of people in modern society, especially the vacuity in interpersonal ethical relationships and meaningless dilemma caused by cultural conventional oppression as his essential guidelines; Leninas analyzes modernists'forfeit of morality and their dilemma of the age under the control of ontological identity, and explores the nature and origin of their existence dilemma; He takes the stance that ethics acts as the first philosophy to make interpretation and conformity towards some contemporary chief cultural trends including phenomenology, existentialist philosophy, philosophy of life as well as divine philosophy of Judaism; considers building an ethical ontological system which takes the ethic spirit of"for the other"as its spiritual substance, accordingly, giving people infinite responsibility concern as the basic theory interest of ethics of responsibility Levinas'criticism on 20th century western cultural crisis as well as his embrace of ethical metaphysics supplies much room for academic research, consequently possesses significant theoretical and realistic meaning.