Knud Ejler Løgstrup’s Reception of Max Scheler’s Ethics of 1932 and Beyond

Bjørn Rabjerg*

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Abstract

This article explores Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup’s prize dissertation from 1932: An Exposition and Evaluation of Max Scheler’s “Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik.” In this work, Løgstrup praises Scheler’s phenomenological approach to values, seeing it as an important contribution to the field of ethics. However, Løgstrup rejects Scheler’s phenomenological foundation of the ethical “ought,” arguing that the “ought” lies outside the scope of phenomenology. Furthermore, Løgstrup rejects Scheler’s philosophical (and theological) anthropology, where he finds this to be too optimistic and not sufficiently concerned with human self-centredness. Finally, the article presents how Løgstrup is inspired by Scheler in his later work, where Løgstrup combines an optimistic ontological view on values with a pessimistic anthropological view on human nature. This duality constitutes the core of Løgstrup’s own approach to ethics, where he focuses on what he calls “the ethical demand,” “sovereign expressions of life,” and “circling thoughts and emotions.”.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelContributions To Phenomenology
Antal sider17
ForlagSpringer Nature
Publikationsdatomaj 2022
Sider173-189
DOI
StatusUdgivet - maj 2022
NavnContributions To Phenomenology
Vol/bind118
ISSN0923-9545

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