Life as Moving Towards the Other
The ethics of Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905-1981) is relation ethics. It raises the question of how we can do justice to the life of the Other as it is laid in our hands. In this paper, I start out with an ethical dilemma, clarify the concepts of decision ethics and relation ethics, and I then present...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Stavanger
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Comparative Social Work |
| Online Access: | https://journals.uis.no/index.php/JCSW/article/view/113 |
| Summary: | The ethics of Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905-1981) is relation ethics. It raises the question of how we can do justice to the life of the Other as it is laid in our hands. In this paper, I start out with an ethical dilemma, clarify the concepts of decision ethics and relation ethics, and I then present the ethics of Løgstrup understood as relation ethics. Lastly, I discuss the important question – within the fields of social work, health care, psychotherapy and pedagogical practices – of how we can meet people in need of our help in an ethical way.
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| ISSN: | 0809-9936 |