Levinas was born in 1905 in Lithuania to a pious Jewish
family. He lived through the Holocaust. Levinas began his
studies in philosophy at the University of Strausberg. He
continued his study in Freibourg, Germany in 1928.

Western Society's study of human beings at the time focused
on grouping people together to create a sense of Unity.
Levinas, however, felt that people were individual and should
not be grouped together.

Levinas believed that we need to recognize the differences
in people because they are traces of God. It is in people's
faces that we can see these differences and divinity. When
the faces of others evoke emotion morality is recognized
in our reaction.

Goodness has no limits