Levinasova filozofska paradigma ili može li milosrdni Samaritanac nadvaladati Apolonovo, Prometejevo i Narcisovo naslijeđe
Levinas’ philosophical paradigm, or can the good Samaritan overcome the legacy of Apollo, Prometheus and Narcissus

Summary/Abstract: The fundamental idea is that the Western culture started with Apollo (know thyself), in order for it to be succeeded by Prometheus and Narcissus as an illegitimate child of Prometheus, so “know thyself” turned into “look at thyself”. Levinas, who looks at the whole Western philosophy as egology with the primacy of thinking, takes a different path and offers, after Apollo, Prometheus and Narcissus, a new “face” as the path of the West – the good Samaritan, giving ethics the primacy over ontology and gnoseology. Thus, by putting justice before freedom (and autonomy), he says: “The Samaritan did not become our neighbor because he comprehended, he comprehended because he became our neighbor.” But as man loses history and concedes it to technology which becomes auto-generating (posthuman society), Levinas’ paradigm “ethics, and not ontology, as filosofia prima” becomes more current than ever.

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