Prof. Dr. Erol Göka

Politics and Morality

The idea that life itself is politics and that the struggle between good and evil is constantforms the foundation of Carl Schmitt’s political philosophy. On the other hand, the notion thatmorality precedes human existence, that the ‘other’ is an essential element in the constructionof the self, that it stands before us even before we establish our own identity, and that the‘other’ essentially signifies morality constitutes the core of Emanuel Levinas’ moral philosophy.