vii, 50 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Emmanuel Levinas has recently been given much attention for the resources that
his writing could provide for an ethics of the non-human. While some commentators
dismiss the humanistic biases of Levinas' analyses in favor of expanded sites of
application, others argue that Levinas' anthropocentrism is central to his philosophy. This
debate is resolved by demonstrating that Levinas' analysis oflanguage and separation in
Totality and Infinity is an analysis of the hW11an on!.v. For Levinas, ethics signifies the
peculiar way ofbeing in the world that is found in the site of the human. This way of
being in the world is the emergence of concems about justice, the emergence of reason
and discourse, but it does not restrict moral consideration to hwnans. Despite Levinas'
own tendency to align the non-human animal against the ethical, there is nothing in
Levinas' analysis that prevents granting full moral consideration to the non-human. / Adviser: Ted Toadvine
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uoregon.edu/oai:scholarsbank.uoregon.edu:1794/10704 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | Moyer, Derek Harley, 1981- |
| Publisher | University of Oregon |
| Source Sets | University of Oregon |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Relation | University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Philosophy, M.A., 2010; |
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