Stern Robert (Professor Professor Department Of Philosophy University Of Sheffield)
Stern Robert (Professor Professor Department Of Philosophy University Of Sheffield) - The Radical Demand In L gstrup's Ethics - Hardcover
Stern Robert (Professor Professor Department Of Philosophy University Of Sheffield) - The Radical Demand In L gstrup's Ethics - Hardcover
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Description: How much does ethics demand of us? On what authority does it demand it? How does what ethics demand relate to other requirements such as those of prudence law and social convention? Does ethics really demand anything at all? Questions of this sort lie at the heart of the work of the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. L gstrup (1905 - 1981) and in particular his key text The Ethical Demand (1956). In The Radical Demand in L gstrup's Ethics Robert Stern offers a full account of that text and situates L gstrup's distinctive position in relation to Kant Kierkegaard Levinas Darwall and Luther. For L gstrup the ethical situation is primarily one in which the fate of the other person is placed in your hands where it is then your responsibility to do what is best for them. The demand therefore does not come from the other person as such as what they ask you to do may be different from what you should do. It is also not laid down by social rules nor by God or by any formal principle of practical reason such as Kant's principle of universalizability. Rather it comes from what is required to care for the other and the directive power of their needs in the situation. L gstrup therefore rejects accounts of ethical obligation based on the commands of God or on abstract principles governing practical reason or on social norms; instead he develops a different picture at the basis of which is our interdependence which he argues gives his ethics a grounding in the nature of life itself.
Title: The Radical Demand In L gstrup's Ethics
Author(s): Stern Robert (Professor Professor Department Of Philosophy University Of Sheffield)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198829027
Pages: 388 Pages
Publication Date: 3/17/2019
Category: Theology
Description: How much does ethics demand of us? On what authority does it demand it? How does what ethics demand relate to other requirements such as those of prudence law and social convention? Does ethics really demand anything at all? Questions of this sort lie at the heart of the work of the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. L gstrup (1905 - 1981) and in particular his key text The Ethical Demand (1956). In The Radical Demand in L gstrup's Ethics Robert Stern offers a full account of that text and situates L gstrup's distinctive position in relation to Kant Kierkegaard Levinas Darwall and Luther. For L gstrup the ethical situation is primarily one in which the fate of the other person is placed in your hands where it is then your responsibility to do what is best for them. The demand therefore does not come from the other person as such as what they ask you to do may be different from what you should do. It is also not laid down by social rules nor by God or by any formal principle of practical reason such as Kant's principle of universalizability. Rather it comes from what is required to care for the other and the directive power of their needs in the situation. L gstrup therefore rejects accounts of ethical obligation based on the commands of God or on abstract principles governing practical reason or on social norms; instead he develops a different picture at the basis of which is our interdependence which he argues gives his ethics a grounding in the nature of life itself.
Title: The Radical Demand In L gstrup's Ethics
Author(s): Stern Robert (Professor Professor Department Of Philosophy University Of Sheffield)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198829027
Pages: 388 Pages
Publication Date: 3/17/2019
Category: Theology
