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PREPARATION 2
Assignment due in class on March 10 from some students* *Since part of the value of the text preparation assignment is that it will prepare you to be an active participant in tutorial and in class, it may only be submitted in class on the day it is due. If you have to miss that day's class, please contact me to make alternate arrangements. Based on your reading of:
please address either Questions 1 and 2 or Questions 1 and 3 below in 3-4 well-written paragraphs (spanning 2-3 pages). Since this is your first reading of this text, and since we have not yet discussed it in class, you are not being asked to supply definitive answers but preliminary, thoughtful responses based on close attention to the text. Your answers may also include 1-2 important questions raised by your reading for further discussion. |
1. Levinas characterizes "the interpersonal relationship" as a "facing" (77). What are the features of the "face," and how does Levinas connect it to "ethics"? (2-3 paragraphs)
2. What is the difference between "the saying" and "the said"? (one paragraph)
3. How does Levinas distinguish "justice" from "ethics"? (one paragraph)
*Although your answers should be centered on these selections, and it is possible to address the questions by looking exclusively at these selections, if you find it helpful to refer to another part of the book or to something in "Philosophy and the Idea of the Infinite" in support of your answer, feel free to do so.
As you did for the Text Summary assignment, in preparing this assignment please use in-text parenthetical page references.
Your assignment should be printed double-spaced and with one-inch margins, using a 10-12-point font. Please number and staple the pages you hand in.
Please keep a copy of your assignment to refer to in our class discussion.
distributed/posted March
5, 2010