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Re-completed “Secrets of European Responsibility”. I’m getting Derrida’d out

"Christ's teaching concerns the love that we must show to our private enemies, to those we would be tempted to hate through personal or subjective passion, and not to public enemies. Christ's teaching would thus be moral or psychological, even metaphysical, but not political" (103).

Completed "Whom to Give to (Knowing Not to Know)".

"Abraham must assume absolute responsibility for sacrificing his son by sacrificing ethics, but in order for there to be a sacrifice, the ethical must retain all its value; the love for his son must remain intact, and the order of human duty must continue to insist on its rights" (66).

Kind of bewildering how much more legible and insightful this book became as soon as Derrida started talking about Kierkegaard

Completed "Beyond: Giving for the Taking, Teaching and Learning to Give, Death".

"Death is very much that which nobody else can undergo or confront in my place. My irreplaceability is therefore conferred, delivered, 'given,' one can say, by death" (41).

Can barely focus today, for some reason. May or may not read more by the end of the day, we'll see

Completed "Secrets of European Responsibility".