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Concern for the Other
Svend Andersen
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Paperback. Examines the structure, intention, and originality of K E Logstrup's ethics as a whole. This collection of essays is a companion to "Beyond the Ethical Demand", as well as to "The Ethical Demand". It also examines Logstrup's crucial concept of the "sovereign expressions of life" and his view of moral principles as a substitute for ethics. Editor(s): Andersen, Svend; Niekerk, Kees van Kooten. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 169 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268020316
SKU
V9780268020316
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About Svend Andersen
Svend Andersen is professor of ethics and philosophy of religion at the University of Aarhus. Kees van Kooten Niekerk is associate professor of bioethics at the University of Aarhus. Contributors: Svend Andersen, Kees van Kooten Niekerk, Hans Fink, Brenda Almond, Anne Marie Pahuus, Zygmunt Bauman, Øjvind Larsen, Alasdair MacIntyre, Svein Aage Christoffersen, Hans S. Reinders, and ... Read more
Reviews for Concern for the Other
“This essay collection featuring 11 contributors (including Hans Fink and Alasdair MacIntyre, who edited a new translation of The Ethical Demand in 1997) supplies a fittingly interrelated context: each author not only references Logstrup and his concepts but also addresses the critical responses he has engendered from one or more of the contributors here. The complete volume, then, works as ... Read more