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The Frontiers of Theory Of Jews and Animals Phần 6

Trong lịch sử triết học, các vấn đề khác trong khi không có một quyết định hoàn toàn từ xuất hiện dù sao cũng là một mối quan tâm duy nhất của con người. | Chapter 5 What If the Other Were an Animal Hegel on Jews Animals and Disease Opening Within the history of philosophy the question of the other while not having a purely singular determination appears nonetheless to be a uniquely human concern. Hence engagement with the nature of alterity and thus the quality of the other are philosophical projects that commence with an assumed if often implicit anthropocentrism. Alterity figures therefore within a context that is delimited from the start by an assumption about the being of being human or at least the approach to human being usually begins with the posited centrality of human-to-human relations. This position is explicit in the writings of Levinas for whom the presence of the other is acknowledged and sustained through a mode of address. He argues that Every meeting begins with a benediction une benediction contained in the word hello bonjour . This hello bonjour that every cogito that every reflection on self already presupposes and which could be the first transcendence. This greeting salut addressed to the other man l autre homme is an invocation. I insist therefore on the primacy of the welcoming relation in regard to otherness. J insiste done sur la primauté de la relation bienveillante à 1 égard d autrui .1 There is therefore a primacy of relation between humans that is given through the word . If it were possible to define the absence of the word then that absence would describe the animal s presence. Absence or poverty would prevail. It is of course precisely this prevailing sense of deprivation that as has already been argued leaves open the possibility of thinking a form of animal presence that was situated beyond both a founding without relation though equally beyond an attempt to supplant it. This is the complex state of affairs already indicated once the with is not taken as the negation of the without relation but as that which 96 Of Jews and Animals inaugurates another thinking of relation. In other