PhiloWikiConceptsPhilosophersBooksInteractive graph

Concept

Face-to-face (philosophy)

Face-to-face (philosophy)
The original uploader was Magnus Manske at English Wikipedia. Later versions were uploaded by Optimager at en.wikipedia. · Public domain · source

Overview

philosophical concept described by Emmanuel Lévinas

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Possible passages

Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.

  1. Objection 1: It seems that one can in this life see the Divine essence. For Jacob said: "I have seen God face to face" (Gen. 32:30). But to see Him face to face is to see His essence, as appears from the words: "We see now in a glass and in a dark manner, but then face to face" (1 Cor. 13:12). Obj. 2: Further, the Lord said to Moses: "I speak to him mouth to mouth, and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he…

    Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I

    States what Face-to-face is; names Face-to-face several times.

    Read the chapter · Open in the reader

  2. 8); and also “The Lord talked with you face to face” (Deut. v. 4); instead of which we read more plainly in another place, “Ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice” (ib. iv. 12). The hearing of the voice without seeing any similitude is termed “face to face.” Similarly do the words, “And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face” correspond to “There he heard the voice of one…

    Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed

    Names Face-to-face several times; states what Face-to-face is.

    Read the chapter · Open in the reader

  3. But his formulation of the notion of development and his organization of devices for promoting it were badly hampered by the fact that he conceived development to be the unfolding of a ready-made latent principle. He failed to see that growing is growth, developing is development, and consequently placed the emphasis upon the completed product.

    John Dewey, Democracy and Education

    States what Face-to-face is.

    Read the chapter · Open in the reader

Philosophers who discussed Face-to-face (philosophy)

Related ideas

Opposing perspectives

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

Explore Face-to-face (philosophy) in the interactive graph →