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    Husserl's concept of Einfühlung (empathy) fails to adequately explain how the 'other' appears to us as genuinely other rather than merely as a double of the self

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    • 1.Husserl's Fifth Cartesian Meditation grounds the other's constitution in 'pairing' (Paarung), which imports the other's bodily comportment as irreducibly alien to my own sphere.
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    • 2.Yet pairing operates by analogical apperception, meaning the other's subjectivity is always inferred from my own embodied schema, never directly encountered as transcendent.
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    • 3.A method that derives otherness entirely from first-person resources cannot in principle generate genuine transcendence, since transcendence requires a source outside the constituting ego.
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    • 1.Levinas argues in Totality and Infinity that genuine alterity must resist reduction to what the same can anticipate or project, making it structurally incomprehensible through analogical inference.
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    • 2.Husserl's Einfühlung yields only an 'appresented' other whose inner life is forever inaccessible yet modeled on my own intentional structure, collapsing Levinas's asymmetric face-to-face relation.
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    • 3.Any phenomenology that makes the other's constitution depend on the ego's own self-experience systematically forecloses the irreducible surplus that defines the other as other rather than alter ego.
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    • 1.The notion of Einfühlung assumes the 'other' is 'analogous' to one's own 'I'
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    • 2.If the 'other' is merely analogous to one's own 'I', the 'other' is conceived as a double of one's own 'I'
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    • 3.A concept that reduces the 'other' to a double of one's 'I' cannot explain how that 'double' continues to appear as constituting a genuinely other being
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    To some, it would appear to be an obvious fact that individuals are able to understand others, in their being and essence, both as alike and other than themselves. From a phenomenological standpoint, however, this fact is a problem which is neither obvious nor easy to explain, and it is a problem whose solution was viewed differently by both Ortega and Husserl. For Husserl, the solution to this problem was found in his notion of Einfühlung (“empathy”, or literally, “feeling oneself into another”
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