TITLE:
The Other
AUTHORS:
Kuang-Ming Wu
KEYWORDS:
Levinas, Confucius, The Other, Respect, Dialogue
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.8,
August
6,
2015
ABSTRACT:
This essay considers “the other” in Section
2—Levinas with Confucius and Section 3—The Other, to conclude with a wrap-up.
Section 2 is Confucius critically dialoguing with Levinas. Section 3 develops
“the other.” The wrap-up stresses how important such intercultural dialogue is.
Section 2 has five themes: “face” as the other; “ethics” as human cosmology;
the “other” as respect-dialogues; reasoning as logic-playing; and failure as
success persistent. Section 3 has five more themes, the other in respect, as togetherness,
as inter-verb, as joy cosmic, and as Utopia now. Wrap-up looks forward.