Levinas on evil

Technology presupposes only the law-abidingness of things, their being equal to our desires, and the cunning of thought. The first metaphysical question is no longer Leibniz's question "why is there something rather than nothing?", but, "why is there evil rather than good?"

— Levinas, "Transcendence and Evil"

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