Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Conception of Ethics and the Ethical in K. E. Løgstrup's The Ethical Demand -- In the Eyes of a Lutheran Philosopher -- The Genesis of K. E. Løgstrup's View of Morality as a Substitute -- Principles and Situations -- The Use of Principles in Ethical Situations -- The Liquid Modern Adventures of the "Sovereign Expression of Life" -- The Ethical Demand in a Global Perspective -- Human Nature and Human Dependence -- Sovereign Expressions of Life, Virtues, and Actions -- Donum or Datum? -- A Response to Hans Reinders's "Donum or Datum?" -- Contributors -- Index.