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The Radical Demand in Løgstrup's Ethics

Author : Robert Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192564234
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Radical Demand in Løgstrup's Ethics written by Robert Stern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much does ethics demand of us? On what authority does it demand it? How does what ethics demand relate to other requirements, such as those of prudence, law, and social convention? Does ethics really demand anything at all? Questions of this sort lie at the heart of the work of the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup (1905-1981), and in particular his key text The Ethical Demand (1956). In The Radical Demand in Løgstrup's Ethics, Robert Stern offers a full account of that text, and situates Løgstrup's distinctive position in relation to Kant, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Darwall and Luther. For Løgstrup, the ethical situation is primarily one in which the fate of the other person is placed in your hands, where it is then your responsibility to do what is best for them. The demand therefore does not come from the other person as such, as what they ask you to do may be different from what you should do. It is also not laid down by social rules, nor by God or by any formal principle of practical reason, such as Kant's principle of universalizability. Rather, it comes from what is required to care for the other, and the directive power of their needs in the situation. Løgstrup therefore rejects accounts of ethical obligation based on the commands of God, or on abstract principles governing practical reason, or on social norms; instead he develops a different picture, at the basis of which is our interdependence, which he argues gives his ethics a grounding in the nature of life itself.

The Ethical Demand

Author : K. E. Løgstrup
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019259804X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Demand written by K. E. Løgstrup and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ethical Demand (1956) by K. E. Løgstrup is one of the great works of modern moral philosophy: it is presented here in a new translation with introduction and notes. Løgstrup puts forward his distinctive view concerning our vulnerability to each other and what this requires of us in response. He starts by considering Jesus's 'proclamation' to love your neighbour and how this can be understood in 'purely human terms' as relating to basic features of our existence. Reflecting on the phenomenon of trust, Løgstrup emphasizes the fundamental interdependence of human life and how this gives rise to an 'ethical demand' on us to care for the other, which he characterizes as radical, silent, one-sided, and unfulfillable. In order to make sense of a demand of this sort, Løgstrup argues, we must see 'life as a gift', rather than treating ourselves as the sovereign grounds for our own existence. He contrasts this demand to social norms, which are often reciprocal in this way, and argues that while such norms are changeable, the ethical demand itself is absolute. Løgstrup therefore makes a fundamental contribution to our understanding of the nature of-and basis for-our obligations to each other. In this critical edition, Løgstrup's original text is accurately rendered into readable English and paired with an introduction which explains the main themes and wider context of the work.

What is Ethically Demanded?

Author : Hans Carl Fink
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268101855
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book What is Ethically Demanded? written by Hans Carl Fink and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- What Is Ethically Demanded? -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. LØGSTRUP, KANT, AND MODERN KANTIANISM -- ONE The Anthropology of Kant's Ethics -- TWO Løgstrup on Morals and "the Sovereign Expressions of Life"--THREE Løgstrup's Point: The Complementarity between the Ethical Demand and All Other Moral Demands -- II. LØGSTRUP, KIERKEGAARD, HEIDEGGER, AND LEVINAS -- FOUR Løgstrup on Death, Guilt, and Existence in Kierkegaard and Heidegger -- FIVE The Configuration of the Ethical Demand in Løgstrup and Levinas -- SIX The Ethical Demand: Kierkegaard, Løgstrup, and Levinas -- III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF LØGSTRUP'S ETHICS -- SEVEN Kierkegaard's Demand, Transformed by Løgstrup -- EIGHT The Ethical Demand and Its Ontological Presuppositions -- NINE Løgstrup's Conception of the Sovereign Expressions of Life -- TEN The Out-Side In-Sight: Løgstrup and Fictional Writing -- IV. THEMES AND PROBLEMS: TRUST, DEPENDENCY, AND UNFULFILABILITY -- ELEVEN Trust and the Radical Ethical Demand -- TWELVE Danish Ethical Demands and French Common Goods: Two Moral Philosophies -- THIRTEEN Spontaneity and Perfection: MacIntyre versus Løgstrup -- FOURTEEN "Duty and Virtue Are Moral Introversions": On Løgstrup's Critique of Morality -- FIFTEEN Løgstrup's Unfulfillable Demand -- List of Contributors -- Index

The Ethical Demand

Author : Knud Ejler Løgstrup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268206994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Demand written by Knud Ejler Løgstrup and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knud Ejler Logstrup s "The Ethical Demand" is the most original influential Danish contribution to moral philosophy in this century. This is the first time that the complete text has been available in English translation. Originally published in 1956, it has again become the subject of widespread interest in Europe, now read in the context of the whole of Logstrup s work. "The Ethical Demand" marks a break not only with utilitarianism and with Kantianism but also with Kierkegaard s Christian existentialism and with all forms of subjectivism. Yet Logstrup s project is not destructive. Rather, it is a presentation of an alternative understanding of interpersonal life. The ethical demand presupposes that all interaction between human beings involves a basic trust. Its content cannot be derived from any rule. For Logstrup, there is not Christian morality and secular morality. There is only human morality."The Ethical Demand "is of the highest relevance to contemporary debate, especially around those issues raised by Levinas. It will exert a steadily increasing influence both in theology and philosophy. "

Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics

Author : James M. Gustafson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226311082
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics written by James M. Gustafson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If Catholic and Protestant ethicians were asked to name a single theologian who was qualified to write a comprehensive overview of the historical divergences of Catholic and Protestant positions on ethical questions, the bases for those divergences in fundamentally different philosophical and theological perspectives, and the possibilities for future convergences of the traditions, my guess is that James Gustafson would be the one. . . . This brilliant and tightly argued book . . . will be the most important book on moral theology to appear this year."—John Coleman, National Catholic Reporter

Beyond the Ethical Demand

Author : Knud Ejler Løgstrup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Ethical Demand written by Knud Ejler Løgstrup and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains excerpts, translated into English for the first time, from the numerous books and essays Løgstrup continued to write throughout his life after his landmark work, The Ethical Demand.

Concern for the Other

Author : Svend Andersen
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268160600
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Concern for the Other written by Svend Andersen and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Concern for the Other: The Ethics of K. E. Løgstrup, eleven scholars examine the structure, intention, and originality of Løgstrup's ethics as a whole. This collection of essays is a companion to Beyond the Ethical Demand, as well as to The Ethical Demand. The essays examine Løgstrup's crucial concept of the "sovereign expressions of life"; his view of moral principles as a substitute for, or inferior form of, ethics; his relationships to other philosophers, including the twentieth-century British moral philosophers; and the role of his Lutheran background in his ethics. Løgstrup also firmly advanced the controversial thesis, examined by several essays in this volume, that the demand for "other-concern" central to his ethics does not depend on religious faith.

The Ethics of Nature and the Nature of Ethics

Author : Gary Keogh
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498544355
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Nature and the Nature of Ethics written by Gary Keogh and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores questions which emerge from considering the relationship between nature and ethics through philosophical, theological, ethical and environmental lenses. It will examine the nature (understood as essence or character) of ethics itself and whether nature (understood as natural world) has embedded in it a moral code, as well as examining how particular ethical/theological worldviews influence our treatment of nature. Is there an abstract, objective moral code in nature? If so, how do we gain access to this code of ethics? Is it only accessible through revelation, as in some religious traditions, or is this code of ethics more generally accessible to humanity? Indeed, does such an objective notion of ethics exist; could it be that ethics are a natural and subjective development? Is ethics a feature of nature, or have we invented it? There is, this volume might suggest, no consensus on these questions, as they at times divide and at times unite both the contributors to this volume and the bodies of scholarly work with which they engage. As time moves forward, investigations into ethics in the context of the relationship between humanity and nature have become more complex, taking account of advances in the natural sciences and a growing appreciation of nature. How are we to understand our relationship with nature, and how does this have implications for our understandings of ethics? Are we now realising the repercussions of our failure to take seriously our experience of climate change? This volume offers the reader a unique and underrepresented interdisciplinary perspective, from philosophers, theologians and environmentalists on the dynamic relationship between nature and ethics. It offers breadth in terms of the range of theoretical, cultural, philosophical and theological frameworks, but balances this with chapters providing an in-depth treatment of particular lenses, e.g. the work of Hegel, or the work of Gordon Kauffman. Through philosophical and theological investigation, these collected essays deepen and problematize the scientific and pragmatic discourses on nature, offering scholars solid resources to engage with some of the most pressing issues of our time in light of ongoing debates at many levels on dealing with climate change.

Ethical Concepts and Problems

Author : K. E. Løgstrup
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192602810
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Ethical Concepts and Problems written by K. E. Løgstrup and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is first English edition of Ethical Concepts and Problems (1971) by Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup (1905-81). Originally published as a contribution to a textbook of ethics for students of theology, it propounds a philosophical ethics in continuity with Martin Luther's conception of the natural law. We find here the core idea from The Ethical Demand, that in our dealings with others we are faced with the demand that we take care of them, now conceptualized as the central tenet of an ontological ethics based on human interdependence as a fundamental condition of life. Later in his career, Løgstrup developed a conception of what he called 'the sovereign expressions of life'-spontaneous other-regarding impulses or ways of conduct such as trust, sincerity, and compassion-and these are here described and determined in their relation to the ethical demand and moral norms. Furthermore, this key text discusses a number of central ethical concepts such as duty, responsibility, will, and choice. Løgstrup also explores the relationship between love of the neighbour and politics, before finally concluding with an extensive discussion of political questions such as cultural policy, democracy, and the right of resistance. Ethical Concepts and Problems therefore offers an instructive survey of important parts of Løgstrup's ethical and political thinking, from theological issues like Luther's doctrine of the bondage of the will, to the ideas of philosophers such as Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. In this edition Løgstrup's original text is accurately rendered into readable English and paired with an introduction which explains the main themes and wider context of the work.

Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other

Author : Eric S. Nelson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438480253
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other written by Eric S. Nelson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor W. Adorno, using their thought to address contemporary environmental and social-political situations. Eric S. Nelson explores the "non-identity thinking" of Adorno and the "ethics of the Other" of Levinas with regard to three areas of concern: the ethical position of nature and "inhuman" material others such as environments and animals; the bonds and tensions between ethics and religion and the formation of the self through the dynamic of violence and liberation expressed in religious discourses; and the problematic uses and limitations of liberal and republican discourses of equality, liberty, tolerance, and their presupposition of the private individual self and autonomous subject. Thinking with and beyond Levinas and Adorno, this work examines the possibility of an anarchic hospitality and solidarity between material others and sensuous embodied life.

The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought

Author : George Pattison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135160726X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought written by George Pattison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time when existentialism was a dominant intellectual and cultural force, a number of commentators observed that some of the language of existential philosophy, not least its interpretation of human existence in terms of nothingness, evoked the language of so-called mystical writers. This book takes on this observation and explores the evidence for the influence of mysticism on the philosophy of existentialism. It begins by delving into definitions of mysticism and existentialism, and then traces the elements of mysticism present in German and French thought during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book goes on to make original contributions to the study of figures including Kierkegaard, Buber, Heidegger, Beauvoir, Sartre, Marcel, Camus, Weil, Bataille, Berdyaev, and Tillich, linking their existentialist philosophy back to some of the key concerns of the mystical tradition. Providing a unique insight into how these two areas have overlapped and interacted, this study is vital reading for any academic with an interest in twentieth-century philosophy, theology and religious studies.

Moral Contexts

Author : Margaret Urban Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742513785
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Moral Contexts written by Margaret Urban Walker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. These essays show how to do this, and why it makes a difference. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty

Author : Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317625323
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty written by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Ludwig Wittgenstein are two of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, yet their work is generally regarded as standing in contrast to one another. However, as this outstanding collection demonstrates they both reject a Cartesian picture of the mind and sought to offer an alternative that does justice to the role played by bodily action, language, and our membership within a community that shares a way of life. This is the first collection to compare and contrast the work of these two major philosophers. Fundamental topics and problems discussed include the role of community in their philosophies; Merleau-Ponty on description and depiction and Wittgenstein on saying and doing; the role of language; their treatment of expression; their relation to the philosophy of the Vienna Circle; solipsism; and rule-following. It is essential reading for anyone studying the work of Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty, as well as those interested in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865548794
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses written by Søren Kierkegaard and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upbuilding or edification, is the central theme of Soren Kierkegaard's authorship: only the truth that builds up is truth for you (E02:354). Somewhere along the way, Soren Kierkegaard developed a plan to publish some upbuilding discourses to 'accompany his pseudonymous works. These Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses are the focus of the edifying commentaries in this volume.

Normativity and the Will

Author : R. Jay Wallace
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191536997
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Normativity and the Will written by R. Jay Wallace and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important _ papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay _ Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working_ in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and _ psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Part I, Reason, Desire, and the_ Will, discusses the nexus linking normativity to motivation, including the relations between desire and reasons, the role of normative considerations in explanations of action, and_ the normative commitments involved in willing an end (such_ as the requirement to adopt the necessary means). Part II,_ Responsibility, Identification, and Emotion, looks at _ questions about the rational capacities presupposed by _ accountable agency and the psychic factors that both inhibit and enable identification with what we do. It includes an interpretation of the Nietzschean claim that ressentiment is among the sources of modern moral consciousness. Part III,_ Morality and Other Normative Domains, addresses the _ structure of moral reasons and moral motivation, and the _ relations between moral demands and other normative domains (including especially the requirements of living a _ meaningful human life). _ _ Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once _ sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason. The _ book articulates and defends a unified framework for _ thinking about those issues, while offering sustained _ critical discussions of other influential approaches (by _ philosophers such as Korsgaard, McDowell, Nietzsche, Raz, Scanlon, and Williams). It should be of interest to every _ serious student of moral philosophy. _

Infinitely Demanding

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781680299
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Infinitely Demanding written by Simon Critchley and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley’s influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy. Arguing that what is called for is an ethics of commitment that can inform a radical politics, Critchley considers the possibility of political subjectivity and action after Marx and Marxism, taking in the work of Kant, Levinas, Badiou and Lacan. Infinitely Demanding culminates in an argument for anarchism as an ethical practice and a remotivating means of political organization.

Picturing the Human

Author : Maria Antonaccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195347269
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Human written by Maria Antonaccio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch has long been known as one of the most deeply insightful and morally passionate novelists of our time. This attention has often eclipsed Murdoch's sophisticated and influential work as a philosopher, which has had a wide-ranging impact on thinkers in moral philosophy as well as religious ethics and political theory. Yet it has never been the subject of a book-length study in its own right. Picturing the Human seeks to fill this gap. In this groundbreaking book, author Maria Antonaccio presents the first systematic and comprehensive treatment of Murdoch's moral philosophy. Unlike literary critical studies of her novels, it offers a general philosophical framework for assessing Murdoch's thought as a whole. Antonaccio also suggests a new interpretive method for reading Murdoch's philosophy and outlines the significance of her thought in the context of current debates in ethics. This vital study will appeal to those interested in moral philosophy, religious ethics, and literary criticism, and grants those who have long loved Murdoch's novels a closer look at her remarkable philosophy.