Concern for the Other by Svend Andersen PAPERBACK 9780268020316

Concern for the OtherPerspectives on the Ethics of K. E. Lgstrup\nAuthor(s): Svend Andersen, Kees van Kooten Niekerk\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268020316, 978-0268020316\nSynopsis\nIn Concern for the Other: The Ethics of K. E. Lgstrup, eleven scholars examine the structure, intention, and originality of Lgstrup'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 Lgstrup'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. Lgstrup also firmly advanced the controversial thesis, examined by several essays in this volume, that the demand for \""other-concer.