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    Skepticism itself obeys an ethical imperative — Carmelics
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    Skepticism itself obeys an ethical imperative

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    • 1.Skepticism functions to deconstruct philosophy
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    • 2.Deconstructing totalizing discourses—whether logical or political—is an ethical imperative
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    • 1.Skepticism, by Pyrrhonian definition, suspends judgment on normative claims, including ethical imperatives themselves.
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    • 2.A practice that systematically withholds assent to all propositions cannot coherently be said to obey any imperative.
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    • 3.Assimilating skepticism to ethical service domesticates its radical suspension and misrepresents its historical self-understanding.
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    • 1.Habermas argues that performative contradiction arises when skeptical refusal of systematic reason covertly relies on the very rational norms it seeks to undermine.
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    • 2.If skepticism functions as an ethical tool, it presupposes a stable meta-level normative framework that classical skepticism explicitly denies exists.
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    As indicated, Otherwise than Being problematizes Levinas’ earlier, more ontological approach on the basis of Husserl’s inquiries into passive syntheses and Einfühlung (empathy). There is good reason for this. Responsibility denoted an event that repeats, and even increases as it is assumed (already TI: 100–101). In Otherwise than Being, however, the question of immanence and passivity arises in regard to responsibility’s unremarked persistence and its affective upwellings in us. This is because
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