The relationship between language and ethics in Levinas philosophy

There have been studies on ethics, which is a philosophical discipline, from Ancient Greece to the present. Emmanuel Levinas states that the sestudies are ontology-centered. According to Levinas, an ethic that centers the being alienatesand excludes the other. Forthisreason, he wanted to develop an ethical understanding in which the other/other is before existence. In Levinas' ethics, the other/other appearswith a situation before being. Being has been removed from itsontological sovereignty and brought in a state responsible for the other. Our study, in which we examine this ethical understanding, consists of an introduction and two parts. In the first part, wetriedto explain Levinas's ontological criticism of western philosophy and his understanding of ethics. Levinas's criticisms are generally directed toward the philosophical tradition that sees thought as being. It is possibleto say that Martin Heidegger is at the center of these criticisms. In addition, Levinas both benefited from Husserl and his Phenomenology on the way to ethic sand criticized this field. His phenomenological images are exercises that do not center the self prioritize the other/self over the self. Levinas's ethics is an understanding in which the being is in the center and the other/other is to beforethe self as opposed to an understanding that excludesthe other. Ouraim in the first chapter is not to examine and explain the ethics of Levinas in detail but to make a preliminary preparation to explain the relationship between ethics and language. In the second part, we triedto explain the relationship between Levinas Levinas's ethics and language. Language appears in two aspects in Levinas. The first is the 'said', which is a mode of ontology. As the language of the 'spoken' being, it exhibits an attitude of appropriating the other/the other, the self. Secondly, and in its main meaning, language, especially "saying" from someone else in Levinas, exhibits a featurethatinitiatestheethical relationship. In thesecondpart of our study, wefocused on these two aspects of language and discussed the meaning andimportance of language in ethics. With this main axis, ethics, language, meaning; ethics, language, desire; We triedt o explain the importance of the relationship between ethics and language from different perspectives by drawing triangles such as ethics, language, and art.