Emmanuel Levinas and René Girard: Religious Prophets of Non-Violence

Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 1 (1) (2017)
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This paper analyzes the work of Emmanuel Levinas and René Girard and argues that both of them have as their central problem the phenomenon of human violence and both try to address this problem from their own religious tradition, Jewish for Levinas, Christian for Girard. They both pursue the concept of nonviolence to an extreme point in what each calls saintliness or holiness and both can be considered religious prophets of this extreme version of nonviolence.

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