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- Title
Possession or Construction? Levinas' Interpretation of "Promised Land" and its Philosophical Context.
- Authors
Xiang Yi-xu
- Abstract
Interpretation of the "Promised Land" has always been an important issue in Judeo-Christian tradition. As a French Jewish Philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas studied the Bible and Talmud from the part that the Jewish people left Egypt and sent twelve men to spy out and explore the Promised Land of its details and interpretations. Thus he came up with the idea of two approaches to understand the Promised Land: to possess or to found. Deeply under those two approaches, there are actually two paths of movements of culture and society. The logic of "to possess" is viewed as the Ontological path by Levinas, while he promoted the approach of "to found" in which the Promised Land stretches from a "position" to the Other. At this "position," we had to respond to the Other and take responsibility for the Other. As a conclusion, Emmanuel Levinas' interpretation of the Promised Land had always been a holy land that is open to "human."
- Subjects
LEVINAS, Emmanuel, 1906-1995; JUDEO-Christian tradition; JEWS; PERSONAL property; BIBLICAL studies
- Publication
Sino-Christian Studies, 2020, Issue 30, p115
- ISSN
1990-2670
- Publication type
Article