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    The absence of a demand for reciprocity in disponibilité ... — Carmelics
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    The absence of a demand for reciprocity in disponibilité does not eliminate the necessity of reciprocity for the relationship to fully flourish.

    Forgiveness & MercyVirtue Ethics
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    • 1.Disponibilité does not demand reciprocity and some relationship is possible without it.
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    • 2.Nevertheless, reciprocity must be present if the relationship is to fully flower.
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    • 1.Levinas argues that genuine ethical relation to the Other is fundamentally asymmetrical, requiring no reciprocity to achieve full moral depth.
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    • 2.If full flourishing requires reciprocity, disponibilité collapses into a conditional openness, contradicting Marcel's own distinction from instrumental love.
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    • 1.Agape in the Christian tradition, which Marcel draws upon, is paradigmatically one-directional and yet constitutes the most complete form of relational love.
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    • 2.A relationship's full flourishing is measured by the quality of one party's self-giving, not by symmetric exchange between parties.
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    Yet, it is not enough for one person to be disponible in order for the full communion of disponibilité to occur. It is entirely possible for one person to come to an encounter in a completely open and available manner, only to be rebuffed by the total unavailability of the other person. Ideally, a relationship of availability must include an element of reciprocity. However, the fact that reciprocity is necessary in an intersubjective relationship does not mean that reciprocity may be demanded of
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