The Thinking of God within Levinas's Phenomenology of the Face and Its Theological Implication
Abstract
French philosopher Levinas's phenomenology, though not face the problem of God as the center, but then Houhaidege thinking of God have a major impact. This paper is intended to be an analysis of the text as the main text, with its whole thought process as the background to clarify the concept of God in the philosophy of the layers of the column's meaning. We first discuss the loyalty of God in his philosophy in the positions and roles, and then to focus on the concept of infinity, followed by the face of his performance, the response of self-responsibility, third-party down the context of a pluralistic society characterize the basic features of thinking of God, and finally into the Yun-defined in its theological reflection. French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenology of the face has significant impact on post-Heideggerian thinking of God, though it does not focus on the problem of God. Based on the essay "God and Philosophy," this article aims to clarify the signification of Levinas's concept of God within his whole thinking progress. At first, I will discuss the position and function of the thinking of God in the philosophy of Levinas. Then, I want in the contexts of the face of the other, responsibility of the self, and society of the third to describe the basic characters of the thinking of God through the idea of Infinite. At last, I attempt to reflect on the theological implication of Levinas's thinking of God