Dal principio di ragion sufficiente alla giustificazione dell'esistente. Lo spostamento della domanda metafisica fondamentale in Emmanuel Levinas

In Levinas’ philosophical works it is possible to find a radical rewriting of the metaphysical question and a new definition of the relationship between metaphysics and ontology. Levinas gives a phenomenological reading of the fundamental question of metaphysics through a passage from the idea of ontological difference to the concepts of separation and creation. In this way, metaphysics is associated with transcendence and otherness; ethics is thought of as first philosophy: the metaphysical question is not “to be or not to be”, but the problem of evil and the justification of the existent.