Fate, Need and Responsibility: A Levinasian Reading

Abstract

The world of differences provides various outlooks and perspectives, such as ideological dissimilarities in human beings’ lives, and, therefore, people may experience distinctive challenges in contact with others. With a concrete realization of the phenomenon and how to respond to any external and internal force, any unique individual may start to think of the bases and formulation of such incidents. Everyone’s outlook and the method of analysis would be distinctive based on their experiences, gender, belief, religion, age, and other possible factors, and consequently, the structure of their standpoint would be divergent. The current study aims to reveal how people may respond to the happenings around them by relying on their experiences, beliefs, needs, and outlooks throughout their lives within a philosophical context. In this respect, three notions of “Fate and Belief,” “Need,” and “Responsibility” will be discussed in the light of Emanuel Levinas’ philosophical perspective throughout this research. Thus, this study intends to illustrate how people might face miseries and difficulties in their lives and daily encounters with ethical notion deficiencies. Gaining analytical power on the matters through various practices, one would be equipped with a bearable, easier, and better life.