Beyond the Ethical Demand

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absolute, the, 67, 74 absurdity, 21 action, 130–32 adult, 3 Åhgren, Ulla, 31–32 Almond, Brenda, xxxi n7 altruism, 32 analysis, phenomenological, 7–8, 10, 11, 13, 20, 41. See also phenomenology appeal, 117–18 a priori, 39–40 Arendt, Rudolf, 39–45 argumentation, ethical, 103–5, 108–9, 111, 118–19 Aristotle, 23 attitude, 98–99 of mind, 63, 77, 85 Augustine, 14 authenticity, xvii authority —absolute, 11 —structure(s) of, 162–64 —ultimate, xxi, xxiv, 33, 134 badness, 114–18 Barth, Karl, xxx n2, 20–21 belief, Christian, xiv, xvii, 32. See also faith, Christian Blegvad, Mogens, 96, 101–2 Bloemhof, Dr., 26 Brandes, Georg, 163 British moral philosophy, 96–102, 113–14, 117 Broch, Hermann, 65 Bukdahl, Jørgen K., 79, 82n5 Camus, Albert, 21 care, taking, 8, 10 certainty, 16–17 character, 92, 95, 123–25, 127–28 character trait(s), xix, xxi–xxii, 88–89, 91–93, 124–25 167 Index Index 168 child, 3 choice, 59, 72, 131 Christian (sphere), 10–11 coexistence, 128, 133 cognition, 42, 44–45 communal life, 128, 133 competition, 155 concretization —of the ethical demand, xxvi —of norms, xxiv —of the sovereign expressions of life, xxiv conditionality, 132 —of action, 131–32 conflict, 126, 129 conformity, 54, 57–59, 65–66 confrontation, 134–38 Conrad, Joseph, xxii, 90, 92–93, 95 contradiction (of life), 20 convention, 56–57, 73, 75 creation, xxx, 11, 13, 34, 43, 71 crisis, 123–24, 126–27, 129 —enmity crisis, 127 —foundation crisis, 127 culture, 136, 139 decision, 15–18, 40, 44, 59–60, 79–80, 134–36 decisionism, 134 decisiveness, 79 definitiveness, of the sovereign expressions of life, 54–59, 67, 71–72, 84, 126 demand, 56, 66 —eternal, 56 —the ethical, x–xv, xviii, xxv–xxvii, 8–11, 13, 21–25, 32–40, 42–43, 46–47, 64, 69–71, 75, 85–87, 142 —infinite, xv —religious, xv deontology, 73–74 dependability, 88 depersonalization, 150 description, 114, 116 —phenomenological, 44, 104–5 determinism, 66–67 Diderichsen, Paul, 102 dignity, xxix. See also worth, a person’s disagreement, moral, 108–10 distrust, 2–7, 52, 115, 117 Dulles, John Foster, 26 duty, xix, 73–80 duty collision, 129 Dux, Günter, 154 dying away from the world, 22 economics, xxvii —liberal, 158–59 egoism, xxvii, 32. See also selfishness emotion, 98–99 emotive theory, 98–99 empiricism, 73–75 enmity, 127 envy, 51–52 Epimenides, 47 equality, xxviii–xxix, 152–55, 159–62, 164–65 —cosmic, xxix, 160–62 —democratic, 160–62 —political, 159–62 eschatology, 42–43 eternity, 50, 54, 56, 60–61, 64–65, 67, 71–72, 79 ethically descriptive phenomena, 77, 114, 117–20 ethics, xxvi, 73, 135–36 —applied, 26–28 —applied Christian, 26–30, 37 —Christian, xi–xii, 25–31, 38 —of custom, 75–76 —human, 25 Index 169 —normative, xiii —philosophical, xi–xii, 11–14 —and politics, xxvi–xxvii, xxix–xxx, 141–42, 147–49 —social, xii —theological, 14 —universal, 11 eudaimonia, 23 evaluation, 5–7, 113–19, 138 evil, 63 —absolute, xviii evolution, biological, 136, 161–62 existence —authentic, xvii —human, xii–xiii, 160–62 existentialism, 6–7, 56–57, 59, 75 experience, moral, 103–6 experimentation with oneself, 58–59 explication, ethical, 103–4 expression(s) of life, sovereign, xiv, xvi–xxvi, xxviii–xxx, 49–50, 52–61, 65, 67–72, 75–80, 84–86, 88–89, 91–93, 106, 109–10, 115, 117, 125–33, 135–39, 149–52, 155–58, 165 fact —as basis for the ethical demand, 8–9, 11 faith —Christian, xii, 26–29, 37, 43, 49, 66. See also belief, Christian —in God, 22, 65–66 fallacy —the hedonistic, 89 —the naturalistic, xiii, 117 fear —of death, 86 —of other people, 86, 121n3, 126 fidelity, 119 Fink, Hans, xxiv flourishing, human, 61, 138, 153 Foot, Philippa, xxxi n7 forgiveness of sins, 31–32 fortune, good, 23, 25 foundation, 2–4 freedom, xvii, 59, 67–69, 74, 80–81, 82n5, 153 —of the will, 66–67 —of existence, 66–67 fulfillability of the ethical demand, 31 fulfillment of the ethical demand, xviii Geiger, Theodor, xxvii, xxxi n11, 147–48 generalization, 103–4, 133–35 Giddens, Anthony, xxxi n12 gift, 45–46. See also life, as a gift God, xv–xvii, xxiv–xxv, 10, 22, 24–25, 31, 33–34, 36, 58, 60, 63–66, 153–54 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, xv, 50, 55, 57 Gogarten, Friedrich, xxvi, xxxi...