Emmanuel Levinas
12 January 1906
His work is based on the ethics of the Other or, in Levinas’ terms, on “ethics as first philosophy”. For Levinas, the Other is not knowable and cannot be made into an object of the self, as is done by traditional metaphysics
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Alice James 
or or Mrs William James
Water color portrait by John Singer Sargent
Born On January 12, 1856
