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The Ethical Demand
Løgstrup, K. E. The Ethical Demand. Translated by Hans Fink and Alastair Hannay. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. First published 1956.
Why this matters here
Løgstrup’s The Ethical Demand argues that trust and interdependence place part of another’s life in one’s hands, making ethical claim prior to contractual choice. Trust Beyond Similarity draws that interdependence into the claim that every perspective is incomplete—we need others not because they see the whole, but because they may see what our position misses. The source is a philosophical account of trust as fundamental exposure; the book asks how partial perspectives become trustworthy without requiring sameness.
