What is Levinasian in Sustainability?: Sustainability in the Economy of Being through Levinas’ Le Tiers

This study is motivated by the rising need to express the idea of sustainability as a form of ethical responsibility.Oftentimes discussed in the context of environmental conservation, I intend to incorporate the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas to explain how the other Others (which he calls the Third-le tiers), in its diverse forms, can become a conduit to uphold sustainability for the human kind, and more particularly for the next generations.While the usual idea of sustainability seems to inhibit Levinas' idea of transcendence, I argue in this paper that it is nevertheless needed as human transcendence first occurs in the schema of totality and the economy of being.