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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translation; Introduction; Introduction; 1. Concerning the attempt to give a definition in strictly human terms of the relationship to the other person which is contained within the religious proclamation of Jesus of Nazareth; 2. One presupposition of the view that-according to the proclamation of Jesus-it is in relationship to our neighbor that the relationship to God is determined; 3. Methodological remarks; 1. The Fact Which Is the Source of the Silent Demand
  • 1. The trust which, on a basic understanding, belongs to human existence2. The demand that grows out of the trust which in a basic and all-encompassing understanding belongs to our human life; 3. The twofold function of conventional forms; 4. The demand is unspoken. It is not expressed by the other person; 5. Does demand encourage encroachment?; 2. Mediation; 1. The question of mediation illustrated by an analysis of the concept of love in the works of D. H. Lawrence; 2. Objective and personal mediation; 3. The Radical Character of the Demand and the Social Norms; 1. The demand is radical
  • 2. Mistaking the radical character for limitlessness3. The protection afforded by legal, moral, and conventional regulations; 4. The radical demand is unspoken. It is not expressed in social norms; 5. The guidance of the social norms; 6. The inadequate guidance of the social norms; 4. The Changing Character of the Social Norms; 1. Need, claim, and form; 2. Eros and ethos; 3. The changing character of the social norms illustrated by changes in the view taken of love; 4. The inner contradiction in our view of the relationship between the sexes
  • 5. The changing character of social norms illustrated by changes in views of power, wealth, and equality6. The changing character of social norms illustrated by the process of secularization; 7. Is our knowledge of their relativity a threat to the social norms?; 5. Is There a Christian Ethics?; 1. Our relation to the radical demand is invisible; 2. Is there a Christian ethics?; 6. Opposition to the One-sided Demand; 1. The protest in the name of reciprocity; 2. The understanding of life and the one-sided demand; 3. Controlling existence by way of theories
  • 4. The protest in the name of suffering and death7. Is the Ethical Demand Destructive on Account of Its Radical Character?; 1. The two components of the ethical demand; 2. Is a claim for reciprocity characteristic of natural love in a way which sets it in opposition to the one-sided demand?; 3. The false assertion that loneliness is a curse; 4. The inadequacy of natural love in the relationships which it itself helped to create; 5. The destructive demand; 6. The wickedness of human beings and the goodness of life; 7. The difference between natural love and love of neighbor