本研究嘗試從德希達（Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004）認為形上學是使得列維納斯（Emmanuel Lévinas, 1905-1995）思想中的神學與人道主義得以相遇的共同基礎入手，回應Derrida對於Lévinas的批評。除了藉此回應展示Lévinas的倫理意涵與形上學的差異，並試圖從Lévinas的倫理觀點對神聖與人的關係進行論述，同時也嘗試回答承受他人的責任主體，如何開敞自身為迎接神聖到臨的拓樸（Topo）空間？此主體如何在這開敞的傷口中探尋生命的內在性意涵？如何自處於形上之超越與生命之內在的衝突掙扎中體驗存在之苦？而身陷存在之苦的主體，又是以何種方式經驗著生命？

Starting from Derrida’s indication that metaphysics is the common foundation which permits the encounter of theology and humanism in Lévinas’ thought, this essay attempts to respond Derrida’s criticism of Lévinas. This paper not only demonstrates the differences between ethical meaning and metaphysic in Lévinas’ thought through our reply, and discusses the relationship between divine and human according to Lévinas’ ethical perspectives, but also tries to respond the following questions: how does the subject of responsibility—who withstands the other—open himself and as a topological space which welcomes the advent of the sacred? How does the subject search for the immanent meaning of life within this wound of the openness? How does the subject situate himself between the tensions of metaphysical transcendence and immanence of life, experiencing the pain of being? How does the subject experience (erleben) life when strained in the pain of being?