Concern for the Other: Perspectives on the Ethics of K. E. Løgstrup

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Contents Preface vii Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 Svend Andersen and Kees van Kooten Niekerk ON E The Conception of Ethics and the Ethical in K.E. Løgstrup’s The Ethical Demand 9 Hans Fink T WO In the Eyes of a Lutheran Philosopher: How Løgstrup Treated Moral Thinkers 29 Svend Andersen T H R E E The Genesis of K.E. Løgstrup’s View of Morality as a Substitute 55 Kees van Kooten Niekerk FOU R Principles and Situations: K.E. Løgstrup and British Moral Philosophy of the Twentieth Century 85 Brenda Almond F I V E The Use of Principles in Ethical Situations: A Response to Almond 103 Anne Marie Pahuus Andersen-000.FM 10/19/07 1:41 PM Page v SIX The Liquid Modern Adventures of the “Sovereign Expression of Life” 113 Zygmunt Bauman S E V E N The Ethical Demand in a Global Perspective: A Response to Bauman 139 Øjvind Larsen E IGH T Human Nature and Human Dependence: What Might a Thomist Learn from Reading Løgstrup? 147 Alasdair MacIntyre NIN E Sovereign Expressions of Life, Virtues, and Actions: A Response to MacIntyre 167 Svein Aage Christoffersen T E N Donum or Datum? K.E. Løgstrup’s Religious Account of the Gift of Life 177 Hans S. Reinders E LE V E N A Response to Hans Reinders’s “Donum or Datum?” 207 Jakob Wolf Contributors 217 Index 219 Contents vi Andersen-000.FM 10/19/07 1:41 PM Page vi ...