ABSTRACT
This chapter takes us to the center of Levinas’s philosophy-namely, the ethical relationship with the Other. The main characteristic of this relationship, according to Levinas, is my infi nite responsibility for the Other. Since the current study is not so much focused on the ethical relationship as it is upon the question of how to proceed from this relationship to ethics in the wider sense and specifi cally to the realm which Levinas calls politics, no new insights regarding the ethical relationship will be developed. At the same time, I have claimed that the dyadic starting point chosen by Plato and Levinas is as such convincing, and hence this claim needs to be made plausible.
