ABSTRACT
Løgstrup was both a theologian and a philosopher, and he must be counted today among the most prominent Scandinavian thinkers of the twentieth century, with an influence in the German- and the English-speaking worlds. His importance is due above all to his work on ethical questions and problems, but he also wrote in the fields of aesthetics, linguistic philosophy, and epistemology. The various works are held together by phenomenological observations and analyses that are able to uncover constitutive traits in human existence. In Løgstrup’s eyes, these fundamental circumstances show what it means to say that the human person’s existence is given or created. In this way, he brings his phenomenological analyses into the discussion of problems in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.
