Emmanuel Levinas on the Priority of Ethics: Putting Ethics First
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pragmatism, xxxiii–xxxv, 83–84, 88–89, 134, 142–152, 158, 165nn20–21, 170

pragmatic reading of Levinas, xiii, xxxiii–xxxv, 2, 23–24, 66–67, 83–84, 88–89, 95n32, 120–122, 134, 142–163, 165n21, 166n23, 167n35–168n35, 173

prescriptive language games, 30n36, 85–87, 95n33–96n33

Prinz, Jesse, 62n36

proximity, xxv, 154–156

Ptolemy, 160

Putnam, Hilary, xiv, xxxviiin18, 25n10, 60n34, 83, 130n28, 134, 142, 144, 152, 165n20

quietism, xxxi, 12, 16, 83, 87, 122, 151, 171

Railton, Peter, 60n28

Raskolnikov, Rodion Romanovich, 42, 58n12, 61n35

Rawls, John, xiv, xxxiii–xxxiv, 84, 97–103, 107, 110–111, 113–120, 124–127, 128nn9–10, 131n36, 132n46

comprehensive liberalism and, 100–101, 132n46

fact of reasonable pluralism and, 100

justice as fairness and, 114, 124, 132n46

legislative stage and, 118–119

moral powers and, 100, 115, 119, 124–126

political liberalism and, 100–101, 132n46

primary goods and, 115–120, 125

Read, Rupert, 93n31

realist approaches to politics, 144–145, 148, 151, 162

reason, 8, 10, 155, 170

reciprocity, 98, 103–105, 165n21

reformism, 144–149

Robbins, Jill, xxxiii, 15, 21, 28n27, 52–54, 63n51

Rorty, Richard, 3–4, 7, 21, 29n30, 66, 83, 90n1, 109–110, 130n26, 134, 142–145, 150–152, 162, 165n21

Rosenzweig, Franz, 8–9, 27n16

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 79

saying/said distinction, 173

same, 9–10, 35

Sartre, Jean-Paul, xxv

Schiller, Friedrich, 108

scientific theories, xii, 46, 48, 62n40, 158–162, 166n27, 167n35

Sellars, Wilfrid, 150

Shakespeare, William, 11

Shklar, Judith, 92n15, 113

silence, 14–16, 66, 78–83, 174n3

Singer, Peter, 112

skepticism, 2, 59n21, 70, 162

ancient Greek skepticism, 170

moral skepticism, 59n21, 70

sobrietySee also awakening; insomnia, xxvii–xxxi

solidarity, 144–145

spectatorial point of view, xxxv, 30n36, 83–84, 144, 146, 149–152, 162, 165n21, 171

Stalinism, xii, xxiv, 79, 91n7, 139

Stocker, Michael, 106

Sturgeon, Nicholas, 62n37

substitution, 26n12, 155