Identity and otherness from the character conception in Emmanuel Levinas

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show how the manifestation of wonder reflects an interruption in the historical course causing a reorientation of meaning, whether in the perception of the task of thinking in Greek culture, whether in the path from desire to action, as in the biblical literature. To this end, it is proposed an analysis between the theology contained in the Homeric work and the biblical theology, that is, the path between sensitivity (pathos) and attitude (diké) in Greek culture, regarding the path between teshuqah the Hebrew books of Wisdom and New Testament práxis. This analysis provides an understanding of the existential
dynamism present in biblical literature.