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The Radical Demand in Logstrup's Ethics (Hardcover)
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The Radical Demand in Logstrup's Ethics (Hardcover)
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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.
Logstrup (1905-1981), and in particular his key text The Ethical
Demand (1956). In The Radical Demand in Logstrup's Ethics, Robert
Stern offers a full account of that text, and situates Logstrup's
distinctive position in relation to Kant, Kierkegaard, Levinas,
Darwall and Luther. For Logstrup, 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. Logstrup 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.
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