Knud Ejler Løgstrup

Knud Ejler Løgstrup (full name Knud Ejler Christian Løgstrup, often abbreviated KE Løgstrup; born September 2, 1905 in Copenhagen, † 20 November 1981) was a Danish philosopher and theologian who in 1959 awarded the Søren - Gyldendal price, and a well-known representative of intuitionism was.

Life

After visiting the Metropolitanskolen he began in 1923 to study theology at the University of Copenhagen and graduated in 1930 from. This was followed by a six-year research and study abroad in the philosophers Henri Bergson, Martin Heidegger, Hans Lipps and Moritz Schlick and the theologian Friedrich Gogarten and Emanuel Hirsch. During this period took place in 1932 his Doctorate Doctor Theologiae at Copenhagen University with a dissertation on the ethics of Max Scheler, who was honored by the University with a gold medal.

After he was 1936-1943 Pastor of the Danish People's Church in the village of Sandager - Holevad in Funen, he completed his habilitation in 1943 with a thesis entitled The erkendelsesteoretiske conflict mellem the transcendeltalfilosofiske idéalisme above teologien from.

He then took in 1943 became professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at Aarhus University and taught there until his retirement in 1975. During the Second World War, he fought in the resistance movement against the German occupation forces and had about the study between August 1944 and May 1945 live underground.

Løgstrup, which was in 1959 awarded the Søren - Sansoni Prize, 1965 was first honorary doctorate from the University of Lund and 1977, the University of Marburg.

His major work, a four-volume textbook on metaphysics consists of four books Metafysik I: Vidde above Prægnans. Sprogfilosofiske betragtninger (1976 ), Metafysik II: Art erkendelse above. Kunstfilosofiske betragtninger (1983) Metafysik III Ophav Omgivelse above. Betragtninger over historie og nature (1976 ) and Metafysik IV: Skabelse above tilintetgørelse. Religionsfilosofiske betragtninger (1978).

Advocate of intuitionism

As a philosopher, he was a representative of an ethical intuitionism, which saw a law- based ethics within the meaning of Immanuel Kant critical and an ethical system refused, tried to define the basic moral laws. The U.S. American philosopher Stephen Toulmin presented Løgstrups philosophical ideas based on a everyday situation is as follows:

After Løgstrups view the morality does not apply to rules, but to the so-called " supreme expressions of life." Everyone has an intuitive sense of right and wrong. The " supreme expressions of life " include feelings as well as acts as an open question, trust, compassion, mercy and love. These phenomena are of intrinsic safety good. A good example of this is the open question, because even if the secret police searched an apartment, people living in it can not help but talk to the police because they intuitively feel to do so.

Moral laws are just a substitute for intuition in situations where these intuitive feelings fail in the implementation in actions such as the Golden Rule is a substitute for compassion. Ultimately, therefore Løgstrup took the opposite position to Kant, who assumed that moral laws are the only true moral basis for actions, and that natural desires can never be moral.

Publications

  • Kierkegaard and Heidegger's existential analysis and its relation to the proclamation. Blaschker, Berlin 1950
  • The freedom of the Gospel and the order of society. Kaiser, Munich 1952 ( lectures )
  • The etiske ford ring. 1956 The ethical demand. Laupp, Tübingen 1959; 3rd edition: Mohr, Tübingen, 1989, ISBN 3-16-245335-6
  • Volume 1: The Human and the Christian. Contribution to the introduction to the discussion of Kierkegaard and Grundtvig. 1966
  • Volume 2: discussion of Kierkegaard. 1968
  • Metaphysics. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen Volume I: length and conciseness. Language Philosophical considerations. 1991, ISBN 3-16-145572- X
  • Volume II: Art and cognition. Art Philosophical considerations. 1998, ISBN 3-16-145974-1
  • Volume III: Origin and environment. Reflections on history and nature. 1994, ISBN 3-16-145975- X
  • Volume IV: creation and destruction. Philosophy of Religion considerations. 1990, ISBN 3-16-245502-2
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