This collection of essays by leading international philosophers considers central themes in the ethics of Danish philosopher Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905–1981). Løgstrup was a Lutheran theologian much influenced by phenomenology and by strong currents in Danish culture, to which he himself made important contributions. The essays in What Is Ethically Demanded? K. E. Løgstrup’s Philosophy of Moral Life are divided into four sections. The first section deals predominantly with Løgstrup’s relation to Kant and, through Kant, the system of morality in general. The second section focuses on how Løgstrup stands in connection with Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Levinas. The third section considers issues in the development of Løgstrup’s ethics and how it relates to other aspects of his thought. The final section covers certain central themes in Løgstrup’s position, particularly his claims about trust and the unfulfillability of the ethical demand. The volume includes a previously untranslated early essay by Løgstrup, ‘The Anthropology of Kant’s Ethics, ‘ which defines some of his basic ethical ideas in opposition to Kant’s. The book will appeal to philosophers and theologians with an interest in ethics and the history of philosophy.
Contributors: K. E. Løgstrup, Svend Andersen, David Bugge, Svein Aage Christoffersen, Stephen Darwall, Peter Dews, Paul Faulkner, Hans Fink, Arne Grøn, Alasdair Mac Intyre, Wayne Martin, Kees van Kooten Niekerk, George Pattison, Robert Stern, and Patrick Stokes.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Abbreviations
Introduction by Hans Fink and Robert Stern
Part 1. Løgstrup, Kant, and Modern Kantianism
1. The Anthropology of Kant’s Ethics by K. E. Løgstrup
2. Løgstrup on Morals and “the Sovereign Expressions of Life” by Stephen Darwall
3. Løgstrup’s Point: The Complementarity between the Ethical Demand and All Other Moral Demands by Hans Fink
Part 2. Løgstrup, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Levinas
4. Løgstrup on Death, Guilt, and Existence in Kierkegaard and Heidegger by George Pattison
5. The Configuration of the Ethical Demand in Løgstrup and Levinas by Peter Dews
6. The Ethical Demand: Kierkegaard, Løgstrup, and Levinas by Arne Grøn
Part 3. The Development of Løgstrup’s Ethics
7. Kierkegaard’s Demand, Transformed by Løgstrup by Svend Andersen
8. The Ethical Demand and Its Ontological Presuppositions by Svein Aage Christoffersen
9. Løgstrup’s Conception of the Sovereign Expressions of Life by Kees van Kooten Niekerk
10. The Out-Side In-Sight: Løgstrup and Fictional Writing by David Bugge
Part 4. Themes and Problems: Trust, Dependency, and Unfulfillability
11. Trust and the Radical Ethical Demand by Paul Faulkner
12. Danish Ethical Demands and French Common Goods: Two Moral Philosophies by Alasdair Mac Intyre
13. Spontaneity and Perfection: Mac Intyre versus Løgstrup by Patrick Stokes
14. “Duty and Virtue Are Moral Introversions”: On Løgstrup’s Critique of Morality by Robert Stern 15. Løgstrup’s Unfulfillable Demand by Wayne Martin
List of Contributors
Index
Circa l’autore
Robert Stern is professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield.
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