Emmanuel Levinas
Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher
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Lithuanian-born French philosopher who rewired how people think about ethics and metaphysics. Levinas spent decades arguing that our moral obligation to others comes before everything else—even being itself.
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Emmanuel Levinas was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology.
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