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"This book concerns the nature and basis for the fundamental ethical relation between human beings. Beginning from the fundamental example of trust, it is argued that this relation arises from our interdependence and mutual vulnerability, which then gives us power over the lives of other people. It claimed that in this situation, there arises a demand to care for the other person. This demand is characterized as silent, radical, one-sided, and unfulfillable, as it cannot be satisfied by just doing what the other asks; requires us to act unselfishly; is non-reciprocal; and should not be experienced as a demand. As a result, the demand is distinguished from ordinary social norms, which lack these characteristics, though it is argued that there is a relation between these two levels, as legitimate social norms should 'refract' the ethical demand. It is also argued that in order to make sense of a demand of this sort, we must see 'life as a gift', rather than treating ourselves as the sovereign grounds for our own existence. In understanding the ethical demand in this way, it is suggested, we can make sense of Jesus's proclamation to love our neighbour in purely human terms, though at

Who reads K. E. Løgstrup: The Ethical Demand?

Author

Knud Ejler Løgstrup; Bjørn Rabjerg; Robert Stern

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192598042

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Anthropology, Humanities