Concern for the Other

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. 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 several essays in this volume, that the demand for "other-concern" central to his ethics does not depend on religious faith.