1. Position taken once stays true, even unreciprocated
Levinas’s asymmetric responsibility.
7. Ethical
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The readings follow the same through-line order used throughout the system, making it possible to compare what this lens changes from one idea to the next.
3. Calibration to the specific other, rather than one imposed register
Care ethics’ relational specificity over universal principle.
6. Calibrated vulnerability — self-naming proportional to the container
Care ethics’ relational depth-calibration.
7. Frame-correction over self-defence
Levinasian refusal of personal-attack frame.
8. Calibration language over characterological language
Refusal of essentialism as ethical commitment.
9. Warmth and firmness as a single move
Levinas’s integrated ethical-relational structure.
10. Endings that do not beg
Levinas’s asymmetric responsibility without conditional reciprocity.
13. Honesty about state taking precedence over the fitting response
Levinasian honesty as ethical structure.
15. Refusal to be the conversational centre, even where the medium invites it
Levinas’s other-priority structure.