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Levinas’ Anarchy, the State and International Law

2019· article· en· W3129208656 on OpenAlexaff
Wanshu Cong

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSovereigntyTranscendental numberSubjectivityModernityAlienationPhilosophySubject (documents)State (computer science)Continental philosophyPoliticsLawFundamental ontologyOntologyEpistemologySociologyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper intends to contribute to this workshop by engaging in Emmanuel Levinas’ writings and his conception of anarchy. Levinas belongs to the generation of continental philosophers who were deeply concerned by the alienation of modernity and the terror of totalitarianism and were strongly critical about the so-called “digestive philosophy” that prioritizes ontology and removes the material and sociohistorical contingencies of political struggles. Levinas avoids the common critique that anarchism is nihilistic and simply chaotic by firmly re-anchoring the subjectivity of the self in its responsibility for the Other in a transcendental encounter. Furthermore, Levinas argues that the approach of the Other is anarchic, as the transcendental encounter is absolutely beyond premeditation and thematization. In this state of anarchy, the self is absolutely passive and vulnerable, and has no choice but to be attentive and respond to the call of the Other. As a result, the Cartesian self is dissolved and turned inside out, but not nihilistic. Ontology becomes secondary to responsibility: subjectivity and freedom are the result of and constituted by the primordial responsibility for the Other. Bringing Levinas’ writings to international law is challenging but extremely important. International law’s traditional ontological reliance on the sovereign state is now under various challenges, most notably the challenge of human rights. Levinas’ critique on ontology can be transposed into a much principled and radical critique on the classic notion of sovereign state as the sole legitimate subject of international law. Levinas’ anarchy also invites the imagination of a Levinasian ethical state and international law which aspire to a justice-yet-to-come.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.458
Threshold uncertainty score0.517

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.229 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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