Patocka seems to be an interesting thinker.\u00a0 On page 30 Derrida is discussing Patocka\u2019s idea of responsibility.\u00a0 He suggests that Christianity is unknowingly based on Platonic philosophy with which I agree.\u00a0 He goes on to state that Platonism wants to distinguish the \u201corgiastic\u201d from responsibility.\u00a0 For Plato responsibility was for The Good.\u00a0 However, Patocka wants to suggest that Plato\u2019s responsibility is still orgiastic.\u00a0 He thinks that Platonic knowledge still sensationalizes The Good.\u00a0 Christianity\u2019s mysterium tremendum, the unsymmetrical gaze of God is grasped by dread, faith or a \u2018relation\u2019 to God.\u00a0 Because of this, responsibility is mediated, muted or resolved.\u00a0 Derrida brings up the question of knowledge.\u00a0 How can one have responsibility without knowledge?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that an aporia, a conundrum or a riddle\u2026a paradox for Christianity?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Perhaps the question could be placed in another setting.\u00a0 When responsibility is directed towards \u2018knowledge\u201d it is directed towards neutrality, the Idea, the Forms, Truth, God, Revelation, etc..\u00a0 The \u2018personal\u2019 relationship to God uses terms of person but the \u2018person\u2019 never appears.\u00a0 The faith appears, the \u2018truth\u2019, the ecstatic, orgiastic communion with the Holy Spirit but the Revelation is always deferred, mediated into an economy; the economy of faith.\u00a0 Therefore, \u2018knowledge\u2019 has once again shown itself in the Platonic tradition of light, presence, aletheia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the Hegelian tradition perhaps knowledge could be thought as terminating in the darkness of the \u2018Not\u2019, at least, as an intermediate stage before the transformation of synthesis, sublation, aufhebung.\u00a0 Yet, here again, the tradition of light and the orgiastic prevail.<\/p>\n
In Levinas the termination, the telos, is directed towards the face of the other.\u00a0 Here responsibility does not end in an \u2018it\u2019 but a he or a she.\u00a0 In Levinas knowledge fails in the face of the other.\u00a0 Light turns in on itself as the tradition of narcissism, totality not because it takes up its own self limiting viz. self-determination but because the other faces me.\u00a0 The time of the other is not my time, the anachrony of the saying that always stands before the said.\u00a0 Neutrality as self knowledge, as universal logos, logic, that is always orgiastic cannot answer to the other.\u00a0 Responsibility has become a he or a she and Ethics is not supplanted by reason but centered by his or her face.\u00a0 Violence, the primordial retreat from the other into the totality of light, of orgiastic, can never again be rationalized, justified, ethnic-sized as the criterion is no longer a relative construct but the unique singularity of the other, the irrecoverable distance of the one that faces me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Patocka seems to be an interesting thinker.\u00a0 On page 30 Derrida is discussing Patocka\u2019s idea of responsibility.\u00a0 He suggests that Christianity is unknowingly based on Platonic philosophy with which I agree.\u00a0 He goes on to state that Platonism wants to distinguish the \u201corgiastic\u201d from responsibility.\u00a0 For Plato responsibility was for The Good.\u00a0 However, Patocka wants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[73,124,163,167],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-philosophy","tag-derrida","tag-levinas","tag-patocka","tag-plato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}