Reluctant freedom: constructing the ethical subject in Plato’s "Crito" and Levinas’ "Entre Nous"

ENThis essay seeks to examine, albeit briefly, both paradigm shifts and to show how by enacting these alterations to their respective traditions, both Plato and Levinas structured viable ethical practices that we may be better off not overlooking. To satisfy the limits of space, I have focused the inquiry to one text by each author: Crito, and Entre Nous. Both texts show the paradigm shifts just discussed and explain how virtue requires that inquirers appropriate or impersonate the intersubjective elements which bind them to action and choice.