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solipsism Philosophy the extreme form of scepticism which denies the possibility of any knowledge other than of one's own existence How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Welker seems to be suggesting that such a conception of faith as the antimony to law renders the Reformation tradition almost solipsistic in its orientation as a "private relationship of the individual to God. Levinas has seen this revolutionary aspect of the revelation, and by turning away from the understanding of the subject as solipsistic and instead constituting it by its responsibility for another, by justice, Levinas has not only delineated an understanding of the subject that is preeminently social, but also political (despite the frequent charge that his ethics lacks a politics). Jack's solipsistic brass-bound Idealism cracks under the weight of his association with Willie. |
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