Carl Levitt’s text “On the Unity and Diversity of People”, written in the early period of this author’s philosophical work, explains the thesis that the idea of humanity (on which the concept of a unifited humanity is based) is Judeo-Christian in origin: all peoples and all cultures, regardless of their “natural diversity”, are united in the eschatological act of salvation, and the Son of God represents the paradigm of humanity. In this way, in the “historical context”, all natural differences are immersed and neglected, which results, among other things, in the planetary domination of Western culture. Analyzing Levitt’s thesis - which represents the embryo of what would later become his book World History and the Event of Salvation, this text points to the possibility of a universal Christian idea of humanity, beyond “metaphysical humanism”. Levith, like Heidegger, understands the Christian idea of humanity in the light of the interpretations of so-called Christian thinkers, primarily Thomas Aquinas, without thematizing the ecstatic dimension of the concept of personality, as a relation, in which the “essential” determination of existence is abandoned.
Vladimir Djurdjevic (Thu,) studied this question.