Phenomenology

🇫🇷Emmanuel Levinas

Philosophy

Existentialism

1906–1995

"If every pure character in the Old Testament announces the Messiah, if every unworthy person is his torturer and every woman his Mother, does not the Book of Books lose all life with this obsessive theme?"

Edmund Husserl

Mathematics

Western philosophy

1859–1938

"First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting."

🇫🇷Paul Ricœur

Philosophy

1913–2005

"If we go back to the intention had in common, we find in it the decision to look upon the whole of consciousness primarily as "false" consciousness."

🇫🇷Jean-Luc Marion

Philosophy

phenomenology

b. 1946

"Theological writing always transgresses itself, just as theological speech feeds on the silence in which, at last, it speaks correctly."

"Could this reaction against the personal by philosophers … be, at bottom, one of fear? … Are … bright people … blindly afraid of their own precarious identity and unspeakable vulnerability as particular bodily beings?"

🇩🇪Max Scheler

Philosophy

Phenomenology

1874–1928

"Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved only according to his value."