In his ethics, the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas shows us that relationships can be a way of thinking about God. His ethics are based on the responsibility arising from a relationship. Responsibility is not reciprocal, so the ethical relations in a relationship are completely asymmetrical. According to Levinas, people reveal themselves to one another through the face. The face has meaning in itself, reveals the most and awakens in us responsibility and care. However, face-to-face relations do not presuppose dialogicality and reciprocity. The face is like a revelation and expresses a demand that leads to a specific experience, to an encounter with God. When one meets another person, when they have a face-to-face encounter, they may arrive at the idea of God. At that moment, one becomes responsible for another without any prior decision. The ethical awareness of responsibility is primordial and precedes dialogue. It is relationship and responsibility that gives birth to the subject. The subject's path to the absolute is only possible through the face because the face is what addresses us first. We are social beings who are called to a life of relationships. Relationships can set a modern seeker who is lost in an individualistic society on the path to discovering Infinity. In other words, God is accessible only indirectly, through relationships, and only the other reveals the true longing for Infinity. Communion gives the power to know oneself and to know God. The position of responsibility that a person adopts in a relationship points to the origin of love. And it is love that invites us into a relationship and is the ultimate meaning. Life in communion and loving relationships have the power to give meaning to human life and are a foretaste of communion with God.
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