BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T064351Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20120910T140000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20120910T160000 SUMMARY:Spontaneity and Perfection: Løgstrup’s Moral Psychology UID:20260607T114716Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Australian Catholic University\, Melbourne\, Australia DESCRIPTION:

Abstract: Despite recently attracting the notice of figures such as MacIntyre and Critchley\, the work of K.E. Lø\;gstrup (1905-81) remains largely unknown outside the Nordic countries. Yet Lø\;gstrup is a thinker who develops a fascinating and provocative phenomenologically-driven asymmetrical ethics\, one that is at once strikingly reminiscent of Levinas and interestingly different. I offer an overview of the key elements of Lø\;gstrup&rsquo\;s thought\, particularly his conceptions of the radical\, one-sided and unfulfillable ethical demand and the &lsquo\;sovereign expressions of life&rsquo\; such as trust\, compassion and sincerity. I then consider objections made by MacIntyre against Lø\;gstrup&rsquo\;s vision of spontaneous\, unreflective ethical action. Against MacIntyre&rsquo\;s claim that Lø\;gstrup&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;ethical demand&rsquo\; for spontaneous mercy is merely what remains of the Thomist virtue of misericordia after a particular form of ethical life has collapsed\, I argue that Lø\;gstrup instead offers a very different form of moral perfectionism\, one that can be illuminated through reference to Daoist\, mystical and Kierkegaardian moral psychology.

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