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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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