According to Levinas, 'Ethics' begins with the intrusion of the Face of an Other into Phenomenological Interiority. As has been proposed here, a divergence from that scenario is that 'Ethics' begins with the response to that intrusion--either a welcoming, or a reduction to another mere phenomenon. Now, such a welcoming is constituted by the I and the Thou combining as a We. So, according to this variation of Levinas' scenario, the cardinal moment of Ethics is the formation of We on the occasion of one's encounter with radical Alterity.
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