歷經虛無主義的時代，倫理學的議題逐漸被聚焦在如何重建存在的價值，思想家希望幫助人類重新肯定自身存在的意義，而在對峙虛無的努力中尋找存在的出路。置身在如此風潮中的萊維納斯認為，「為他人」的倫理與生存是密不可分的，他指出存在的價值並不在與虛無的對立中被闡明，而在負擔生存的行動中同時實現「為他人」的倫理。存在的意義因而在生存者「為他人」的努力中，在想使責任的意義超出自身存在的範圍而抵達他人界域的高貴意願中顯現。

After the era of nihilism, ethical issues have been gradually focused on how to rebuild a value of “Being,” thinkers want to help people reaffirming the significance of his own being and trying to find a way of existence by efforts against nothingness. Being in such an epoch, Levinas says that the ethics of “for the Other” and existence are inextricably linked, he noted that the value of existence can not be expounded in confrontation with nothingness, but to achieve the ethics of “for the Other” in assuming the burden of existence. The meaning of “Being” is thus revealed in the efforts of “for the Other” and in the noble desire of “wanting to make sense of responsibility beyond ones’ own Being to reach the Other”.