BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260409T202310Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20260629T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20260702T170000 SUMMARY:Levinas as Educator UID:20260413T000631Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-r5qzs TZID:Europe/Vilnius LOCATION:Universiteto str. 9\, Vilnius\, Lithuania DESCRIPTION:

How to teach philosophy has always been one of philosophy&rsquo\;s central questions.  \;In person\, in some sense\, but how precisely\, and why? The traditional answers usually rely on distinguishing between opinion and knowledge and aligning this epistemological distinction with an ontological-metaphysical distinction between appearance and reality: truth\, based in the real\, can be taught. \; Socrates\, seeking definition\, interrogated his interlocutors face-to-face\; Plato established an Academy and published Dialogues\; Aristotle set up a Lyceum and published his lectures.  \;Levinas calls for a fundamental reorientation of intelligibility\, finding its source not in knowledge and being but in moral responsibility\, in ethics.  \;Levinas\, throughout his adult life\, was a teacher\, from 1930 at a Jewish school in Paris through to the 1980s\, when\, after WWII\, he became Director of the same school\, and for fifteen years\, from 1961 to 1976\, he was also a French university professor. His life and thought are devoted to teaching as an integral part of ethics. &ldquo\;Teaching\,&rdquo\; Levinas wrote at the start of Totality and Infinity (1964)\, &ldquo\;is not reducible to maieutics\; it comes from the exterior and brings me more than I contain. \; In its non-violent transitivity\, the very epiphany of the face is produced.&rdquo\; \;

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