... to be a philosophy of alterity, of openness to the other, of responsibility for the singularity of the other (Kearney 1984: 123-124). This will help Christian ethics refocus on the ethics of "the Other-, the lame and the leper, the widow, the orphan and the stranger. It will also give a renewed appreciation of the multiplicity of the Christian traditions, of those voices that have been silenced in ... and by "The Tradition-, producing thereby the illusion of "The Tradition-. Merold Westphal (1993) investigates the works of Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and ... to my own instinct...

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