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    The foundational link of religion and hospitality must be... — Carmelics
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    The foundational link of religion and hospitality must be extended to animals as well as humans

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    • 1.Animals are genuinely other
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    • 2.Every other is wholly other (tout autre est tout autre)
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    • 3.If the link must be open to every single other, it must include animals
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    • 1.Derrida's 'tout autre est tout autre' is a formal logical equivalence, not a substantive ethical claim about moral consideration.
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    • 2.Extending hospitality requires a reciprocal structure of recognition that animals, lacking linguistic subjectivity, cannot enter into.
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    • 3.Levinas explicitly argued that the face, as the ground of ethical obligation, is a distinctly human phenomenon not extended to animals.
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    • 1.Abrahamic religious traditions ground hospitality in covenant obligations between persons bearing the imago Dei, not in generic otherness.
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    • 2.Collapsing the distinction between human and animal hospitality obligations risks dissolving the specific theological anthropology that gives religious hospitality its normative force.
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    As I said, Derrida always uses the basic argumentation that we have laid out against the idea of the worst; today the tendency towards the worst is greater than ever. The purpose in the application – this purpose defines deconstruction—is to move us towards, not the worst violence, not the most violence, but the least violence (Writing and Difference, p. 130). How does the application of the argumentation against the worst work? Along with globalization, the post-Cold War period sees, as Derrida
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