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By Dermot Moran
This paintings is a considerable contribution to the heritage of philosophy. Its topic, the ninth-century thinker John Scottus Eriugena, constructed a sort of idealism that owed as a lot to the Greek Neoplatonic culture as to the Latin fathers and expected the concern of the topic in its sleek, so much radical assertion: German idealism. Moran has written the main accomplished research but of Eriugena's philosophy, tracing the resources of his pondering and interpreting his most vital textual content, the Periphyseon. This quantity can be of particular curiosity to historians of mediaeval philosophy, historical past, and theology.
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Towards the very end of his exposition in the 'Reflections on Hitlerism', prior to lamenting the intellectual and existential manipulation by the Nazis of Zarathustra's sermon, Levinas summarizes the gist of the ontological temptation inherent in the Hitlerian delusion of regeneration and authenticity, which takes care to capitalize metaphysically on the communal deficit and the 'transcendental homelessness' inherent in an epoch seemingly typified by decadence and nihilism. The paragraph is a veritable tour de force, and is highly reminiscent of the Spenglerian vogue of Zivilisationkritiker^1 which dominated the inter-war period.
25 Levinas describes his critique as 'difficult reflections', which 'go further than one would think ...
The welcoming of a being that appears in the face, the ethical event ... the epiphany that is produced as a face ... "reveals" infinity ... ' Moreover, 'the face in which the other - the absolutely other - presents himself does not negate the same, does not do violence to it... it remains commensurate with him who welcomes. This presentation is pre-eminently non-violence, for instead of offending my freedom it calls it to responsibility and founds it. As non-violence it nonetheless maintains the plurality of the same and the other.