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+I negate and value Morality. |
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+First, we reach the limits of human knowledge when we encounter the Other. The fundamental alterity of the Other controls our epistemology. Crowe |
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+Jonathan Crowe Assoc. Prof. of International Humanitarian Law, U of Queensland, TC Beirne School of Law “LEVINASIAN ETHICS AND ANIMAL RIGHTS”. 2008 University of Windsor Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice. https://www.academia.edu/1622456/Levinasian_Ethics_and_Animal_Rights |
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+We initially attempt...with the Other. |
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+-Epistemology is a perquisite |
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+Since we can never fully be the Other, our epistemology in relation to the other is forever limited. Recognizing the other’s radical alterity by accepting that one will never understand them and they’ll always be different is the only way to avoid totalization. AND, Respecting the other is key to moral agency, prerequisite to ethics. Beavers |
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+Anthony F. Beavers Prof. of Phil. at U of Evansville “Introducing Levinas to Undergraduate Philosophers”. the Undergraduate Philosophy Association at the University of Texas at Austin, 1990. http://faculty.evansville.edu/tb2/PDFs/UndergradPhil.pdf |
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+If we can...itself, be unethical. |
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+Thus, the standard is rejecting totalization |
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+I contend affirming totalizes the other. |
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+1st A prohibition imposes a universal conception of the good |
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+2nd Prohibition entails restriction upon the Other |
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+3rd Western philosophy attempts to create a perfect standard applicable to all others, thereby totalizing their existence. |
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+Benson writes: |
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+Benson, Bruce Ellis. Graven ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida and Marion on modern idolatry. InterVarsity Press, 2002. |
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+Emmanuel Levinas and...my own image. |
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+This is empirically proven by current nuclear energy policy debate. |