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In this sublime connectivity, he shares an overwhelming alliance with Pascal
who, Levinas writes, “says that my place in the sun is the archetype and the
beginning of the usurpation of the whole earth”
19
. So invested is this “I” that threatens to topple every “You,” that there would appear no stopping humanity, short of
the ethical trust in God, in some kind of higher, transcendental faith to which our
inscrutable contradictions and endless ambiguities can be turned over, and there,
resolved or not. Once faith has obliged this God, we seem content to step back and
let the world do with us as it will.
19 ibid. p. 179.
90 The Individual and the Circumference
In this sublime connectivity, he shares an overwhelming alliance with Pascal
who, Levinas writes, “says that my place in the sun is the archetype and the
beginning of the usurpation of the whole earth”
19
. So invested is this “I” that threatens to topple every “You,” that there would appear no stopping humanity, short of
the ethical trust in God, in some kind of higher, transcendental faith to which our
inscrutable contradictions and endless ambiguities can be turned over, and there,
resolved or not. Once faith has obliged this God, we seem content to step back and
let the world do with us as it will.
19 ibid. p. 179.
90 The Individual and the Circumference