Emmanuel Lévinas: “science uninterrupted”, reason and skepticism

Abstract

Science is part of the general discourse about the “comprehension of Being” like philosophy, that is a wisdom of presence. The scientific and philosophical truth is, therefore, the truth of Being, the truth of an essence exposed in the evidence, it is the setting of a productive subjectivity that is thought as a thematized intentionality and freed of spirit. Hence, science is always an ideology pointing to the domination in the name of truth. Reason is an instrument of knowledge that articulates the event of Being in its thematized exposition or submission while this and that in knowledge. But, is science aware of the fact that its supposed objectivity cannot be avoided in every partiality? The author remarks his conclusion on the need that science should pay attention to the truth, but also, in the same way, to justice.