The Lure of Awe and a Romantic Empathy Approach
Awe in our contemporary struggle is not without corporatism and digression from solitude. As we digress we feel closer to a social order and that feeling brings a sense of reward because we are social beings, intended to be together here in this space. However, awe and its lure has long been corrupted. It can …
What are the Consequences of Romantic Empathy?
Characteristics central to the English Romantic era were beauty and consciousness. To know a thing is to become a thing whereas that idea magnifies and precludes one’s own value of presence. This is not unlike the great fall at the Garden, where the true crime of Adam and Eve was the tailoring of possessiveness. To …
Levinas and the Other
Emmanuel Levinas, in his book, Humanism of the Other (1972), states, in now outdated masculine-universal pronouns,“To suffer by the other is to take care of him, be in his place, consume oneself by him” (2006, 64). What Levinas teaches us that we are to become the other. In an ontological sense we are to place …