In what follows, I argue that the restraint or “bracketing” that characterizes thephenomenological epoche can facilitate an understanding of the radical alterity of the sacred andof the others who experience the sacred.
for: epoche - application - harmonizing radical alterity of the sacred.
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alterity
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definition: alterity
When asked to label their piles, the Himba subjects did not use words like “happy” and “afraid” but rather words like “laughing” and “looking.” If the emotional content of facial expressions were in fact universal, the Himba subjects would have sorted the photographs into six piles by expression, but they did not.
You don't need to go this far, even in different states across the US you could find different interpretations of this faces.
Indeed, much of this historyindicates that it is never simply a question of choosing, for instance, the openingof alterity over the crisis of identity
Muckelbauer is suggesting that there will never be a concrete definition of rhetoric. The ideas of identity and alterity go hand in hand with each other and it can not simply be one or the other.