Emmanuel Levinas on Law, Freedom, and the Temptation of Temptation ⛓️‍💥 #law

Dr. Donald Wallenfang, OCDS provides commentary on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, with special reference to his 1964 Talmudic lecture "The Temptation of Temptation." Through the method of phenomenology, Levinas arrives at the essence of human freedom in relation to the universal human vocation to responsibility for the other. Jewish Torah inscribes ethical monotheism as the foundation of law and morality. Levinas liberates the transcendence of interpersonal freedom from the self-interested reductionisms of the ego.

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