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    The foundational link that defines religion must be kept ... — Carmelics
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    The foundational link that defines religion must be kept as open as possible, extended to every other without exclusion

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    • 1.Derrida seeks to understand the link prior to its determination in terms of man and God
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    • 2.Opening the link as wide as possible resists the englobing or closing of thought thinking itself
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's family resemblance theory shows that concepts require some boundary conditions to retain meaningful content.
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    • 2.A foundational link extended to 'every other without exclusion' collapses the distinction between religion and non-religion entirely.
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    • 3.Conceptual dissolution is not the same as conceptual openness; radical inclusion undermines rather than enriches the concept.
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    • 1.Rawls and Habermas both argue that public reason requires determinate, bounded commitments to function in pluralist discourse.
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    • 2.Resisting the 'closing of thought' as a normative principle privileges indeterminacy over the legitimate need for institutional and doctrinal specificity in religious life.
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    • 3.Historical religious traditions derive their ethical force precisely from their particular, bounded commitments, as MacIntyre argues in 'After Virtue'.
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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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