Contents

List of Abbreviations ix

Introduction 1

Hans Fink and Robert Stern

I. Løgstrup, Kant, and Modern KantIanIsM

onE The Anthropology of Kant’s Ethics 19

K. E. Løgstrup

tWo Løgstrup on Morals and “the Sovereign Expressions of Life” 35

Stephen Darwall

tHREE Løgstrup’s Point: The Complementarity between the Ethical Demand and All Other Moral Demands 54

Hans Fink

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II. Løgstrup, KIerKegaard, HeIdegger, and LevInas

FoUR Løgstrup on Death, Guilt, and Existence in Kierkegaard and Heidegger 83

George Pattison

FIVE The Configuration of the Ethical Demand in Løgstrup and Levinas 102

Peter Dews

sIX The Ethical Demand: Kierkegaard, Løgstrup, and Levinas 130

Arne Grøn

III. tHe deveLopMent of Løgstrup’s etHIcs

sEVEn Kierkegaard’s Demand, Transformed by Løgstrup 151

Svend Andersen

EIGHt The Ethical Demand and Its Ontological Presuppositions 168

Svein Aage Christoffersen

nInE Løgstrup’s Conception of the Sovereign Expressions of Life 186

Kees van Kooten Niekerk

tEn The Out- Side In- Sight: Løgstrup and Fictional Writing 216

David Bugge

Iv. tHeMes and probLeMs: trust, dependency,and unfuLfILLabILIty

ELEVEn Trust and the Radical Ethical Demand 237

Paul Faulkner

tWELVE Danish Ethical Demands and French Common Goods: Two Moral Philosophies 255

Alasdair MacIntyre

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tHIRtEEn Spontaneity and Perfection: MacIntyre versus Løgstrup 275

Patrick Stokes

FoURtEEn “Duty and Virtue Are Moral Introversions”: On Løgstrup’s Critique of Morality 300

Robert Stern

FIFtEEn Løgstrup’s Unfulfillable Demand 325

Wayne Martin

List of Contributors 349

Index 353

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