ABSTRACT
Kierkegaard and Levinas encourage us to be humane. Fearful of grand theories, they leave it to the individual to discern what being humane will involve, but they do suppose that one course of action will tend to present itself as being better than another. In some situations, precepts may fail us. Certain things, though, will still strike us as the right things for us to do, or as probably the right things to do.
