Willing accomplishes a separation

vontade e valor da vida na fenomenologia de Levinas

Abstract

In Levinas' phenomenology, willing is a true event. It realizes (accomplishes) a separation, an existence outside of Totality. Its basic condition is life asserting itself as a value, and not as perseverance in the task of being (most notable characteristic of the instinctual being). In our perspective, Levinas performs an ethical interpretation of phenomenological reduction: the “suspension of theses”, which for Husserl is a necessary and foundational methodological act of phenomenology, takes on, in Levinas, an eminently ethical sense. The will is the event of the human as evasion in relation to being and Totality.