tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201110496877153792.post8432640629102771156..comments2023-10-17T07:56:03.291-07:00Comments on WhooshUp: Groundhog DayKarl Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966874640497047835noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201110496877153792.post-31563079246421140262009-02-02T15:28:00.000-08:002009-02-02T15:28:00.000-08:00Dreyfus should really consider adding this movie t...Dreyfus should really consider adding this movie to his course. <BR/><BR/>Of all the 20th century philosophers I've become aquianted with in the last year it seems to me that the film comes closest to the views of Levinas. Phil learns the absolute priority of "the Other" and it is in this shedding of his self-absortion that he finds himself. Levinas wrote, which I think is in the spirit of the film, "the other's material needs are my spiritual needs."<BR/><BR/>The character of Aloysha embraces this way of life. I can't imagine Aloysha standing on a mountain preparing to kill; his love manifests itself in his encounters in this world and not calls from another.<BR/><BR/>I remember once reading somewhere in Nietzsche where he writes something to the effect that there is a part of him that would want to help defend a weak and besieged African village. I like to think that Nietzsche the man may have caught a glimpse of something that eluded Nietzsche the philosopher. Maybe that slanting ray of light? <BR/><BR/>Both Levinas and Dosotoyevsky place a priority on an ethics of responsibility towards the other. It is primordial. "We are all guilty for all and for all men before all, and I more than others."<BR/><BR/>Did the groundhog see his shadow today?<BR/><BR/>BHBHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09912004240648685828noreply@blogger.com