Minority Report

Minority Report

The Epic of Gilgamesh attempts to answer the question of how, given the finality of death, one might find meaning and happiness in life. Many commentators argue that the text provides two separate, although ultimately unsatisfactory, alternatives. What these commentators appear to miss, however, is...

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Main Author: Francis Dominic Degnin PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-07-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016657858
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spelling doaj-1403142b748a4d4f8d3a5e68a8be9b132020-11-25T04:02:52ZengSAGE PublishingSAGE Open2158-24402016-07-01610.1177/2158244016657858Minority ReportFrancis Dominic Degnin PhD0University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, USAThe Epic of Gilgamesh attempts to answer the question of how, given the finality of death, one might find meaning and happiness in life. Many commentators argue that the text provides two separate, although ultimately unsatisfactory, alternatives. What these commentators appear to miss, however, is the possibility that these two solutions may not be separate. Using Levinas’s distinction between “need” and “desire,” I argue that, by the end of the Epic , they may in fact be synthesized into a single solution, one that suggests the priority of an affective moral grounding as prior to and more fundamental than intellectual solutions.https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016657858
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description The Epic of Gilgamesh attempts to answer the question of how, given the finality of death, one might find meaning and happiness in life. Many commentators argue that the text provides two separate, although ultimately unsatisfactory, alternatives. What these commentators appear to miss, however, is the possibility that these two solutions may not be separate. Using Levinas’s distinction between “need” and “desire,” I argue that, by the end of the Epic , they may in fact be synthesized into a single solution, one that suggests the priority of an affective moral grounding as prior to and more fundamental than intellectual solutions.
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