Etika kot pot k Bogu : diplomsko delo

Cemič, Nika (author), Jamnik, Anton (mentor)

Da so medsebojni odnosi lahko eden izmed načinov razmišljanja o bogu, nam v svoji etiki predstavi filozof Emmanuel Levinas. Njegova etika temelji na odgovornosti, ki jo ustvarja odnos. Odgovornost ni vzajemna, zato je etično razmerje v odnosu popolnoma asimetrično. Bližnji se razodeva prek obraza ali po Levinasovo prek obličja. Obličje ima pomen samo na sebi, razkrije največ ter v nas prebuja odgovornost in skrb. Odnos iz obličja v obličje pa ne predpostavlja dialoškosti in recipročnosti. Obličje je kot razodetje in daje zahtevo, ki vodi do posebnega izkustva, do srečanja z bogom. Ko se človek sreča s sočlovekom, ko sreča obličje, ima možnost priti do ideje boga. V tistem trenutku postane človek odgovoren za drugega brez predhodne odločitve. Etična zavest odgovornosti je prvotna in nastopi pred dialogom. Odnos in odgovornost sta tista, ki rojevata subjekt. Pot subjekta k absolutnemu je možna zgolj prek obličja, saj je obličje tisto, ki prvo nagovarja. Ljudje smo družbena bitja in smo poklicani v življenje, prežeto z odnosi. Sodobnega iskalca, izgubljenega v individualistični družbi, lahko odnosi usmerjajo na pot spoznavanja Neskončnega. Bog je namreč dostopen zgolj posredno, prek odnosov, in le bližnji razodeva resnično hrepenenje po Neskončnem. Občestvenost podarja moč spoznavanja sebe in spoznavanja boga. Drža odgovornosti, ki jo v odnosu zavzame človek, usmerja k izvoru ljubezni. Ljubezen vabi v odnos in je tudi poslednji smisel. Življenje v občestvu in ljubeči odnosi imajo moč osmišljanja človekovega življenja in so predokus občestva z bogom.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Levinas, etika, odnos, odgovornost, Drugi, obličje, neskončno, ljubezen
• Work type: Bachelor thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: [N. Cemič]
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: IV, 32 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-162266
• UDC: 17Levinas E.(043.2)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 208831235
• Publication date in RUL: 20.09.2024

CEMIČ, Nika, 2024, Etika kot pot k Bogu : diplomsko delo [online]. Bachelor’s thesis. Ljubljana : N. Cemič. [Accessed 15 April 2025]. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=162266

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Ethics as a path to God

Abstract

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.

• Keywords: Levinas, ethics, relationship, responsibility, the Other, face, infinity, love