Levinas's Account of Responsibility as the I's Concrete Reality: Inescapable and Asymmetrical

For Levinas, the condition of possibility of ethics lies every day at the moment I encounter the Other face-to-face. On one hand, humankind finds him/herself as the agent of living in a peculiar spatiotemporal situation. He recognizes the cornerstone of the I's and Other's relationship as ethical responsibility centralized toward every day material needs. On the other hand, God is another Other for whom every I is responsible too. This approach puts the highlighter upon Levinas's religious attitude toward responsibility so as to make it infinite and unconditional (absolute). Therefore, infinite responsibility is ineludible as the world is being-in-fullness of the infinite Other. Moreover, according to Levinas, ethical relationship is not of reciprocity and mutuality because responsibility is reliant on feeling and emotionality, allocating a lower position to reason with its calculativeness in ethics.This paper tries up front to throw light of inquiry upon Levinas's thought concerning concreteness, and to sketch an outline of his theory of infinite ethical responsibility.