Patty Sierrda
CQA on Emmanuel Levinas
July 23, 2019
Chapter 7: The Face
Chapter 8: Responsibility for the Other
Upon reading the two chapters of Levinas’ book, I learned a lot of things. I learned the
difference of desire and need. Desires cannot be satisfied while needs can. Desires feeds itself
on its own satisfaction. I also learned that having responsibility for one’s identity is also
important because it shapes your relationship with other people. The self is irreplaceable
meaning, there is only one you and no one can copy nor imitate that. That is why we have to take
full responsibility of ourselves and treat it like it’s the other because no other person must do it
other than ourselves.
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