We look forward to welcoming you on January 12, 2026 @ 2PM, at the LSMU Emmanuel Levinas Centre.
The event will commence with a lecture and discussion led by François Coppens, PhD Philosophy, lecturer at the Haute Ecole Léonard De Vinci (Belgium). We welcome healthcare professionals, psychologists, social workers, lecturers, students, and all those interested in ethical questions, even without specialized philosophical training.
The speaker will examine Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of ethics, introduce the notion of the ethical relation, and explore the ambiguity of critical reason – knowledge, rationality, science, and philosophy. The discussion will illuminate why, in Levinas’s philosophy, far from having to be denounced as a betrayal of the ethical relation, reason is demanded precisely in the name of that which it cannot contain, but for which it is not a substitute.
Please join us in honoring the philosopher’s exceptional legacy.
Zoom link HERE.