Michael,
I will confess that I struggle to grasp Levinas. This is a request for
clarification: what you've said [below] sounds very similar to Heidegger's
notion that the being of an entity is always constituted on the basis of a
background of cultural practices, which he called (rather confusingly) 'the
meaning of being,' or (better in my view) 'the upon-which of being.' The
'difference that makes a difference,' then, is the difference between a
being (an entity: that it is) and the being of that entity (what it is:
constituted culturally/historically).
Martin
On 6/28/07 10:59 AM, "Wolff-Michael Roth" <mroth@uvic.ca> wrote:
> think Being as being grounded, historically, in
> something that is "Otherwise than Being."
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