The Eternal and the new: Socrates and Levinas on desire and need

ENI will show, first, that Socrates invokes the concept of need for the same reason Levinas rejects it, namely, to highlight human vulnerability; second, that their concepts of desire are nonetheless different owing to the presence or absence of a concept of creation ex nihilo; and third, that Levinas' good beyond being is not the same as Socrates', so that the outlined difference in their concepts of desire due to creation remains and points to two fundamental types of human vulnerability.