Ethical
Levinas’s asymmetric responsibility.
Levinas · Care-ethics · Hyde · Murdoch
The Eighteen Convergent Patterns
1. Position taken once stays true, even unreciprocated
A position, once taken and named, holds — including where nothing comes back. He states commitments plainly and keeps them through the pressures that would ordinarily produce silent retreat or strategic adjustment. The source treats this as the most consistent architectural feature of his relational and intellectual life.
The relational particulars through which this pattern first became visible remain private. This page stays with the form of the pattern and the interpretations it opens.
Read through the lenses
Phenomenological
Appresentative transfer making the position publicly available.
Husserl · Merleau-Ponty · Levinas · Marion
Cybernetic-systems
Autopoietic system-stability under environmental perturbation.
Psychoanalytic
Klein’s depressive position — holding the same object as good and disappointing without splitting.