Kierkegaard's Concept of Existence"The objective of this book is to review the complex of issues in Soren Kierkegaard's concept of existence. It is evident that for Kierkegaard existence is always composed of three elements: namely, the subject, freedom, and the ethical. In the process of clarifying the relation between these three elements in the different stages of existence, the course of the development the individual must go through in order to become the single individual is described. "The study falls into four parts. The first section describes the levels in existence on which as person attempts by his own powers to actualize the ethical ideals; in this stage the center of gravity for a person's effort still lies within the bounds of immanence. The second section describes a person's ethical and religious growth as it develops in relation to a transcendent power, whose highest expression is Christ as the revelation of God. The third section discusses the issues in existence that Kierkegaard himself designated as the most difficult of all for human thought. The last section points to the highest existential position to which philosophy in the broader sense and Christianity respectively can take a person. Kierkegaard utilizes these positions as a standard for evaluating existence within immanence and for Christian existence. |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Concrete Actuality of the Human Person | 16 |
The Movement of Irony | 23 |
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absolute abstract According to Kierkegaard actuality Anti-Climacus attempt authorship become Christ Christian Discourses Climacus says Climacus's coming into existence Concept of Anxiety Concluding Unscientific Postscript concrete decision demonic dialectic Either/Or esthetic eternal ethical ethical-religious everything example existential expression faith Fear and Trembling freedom God's guilt Hegel hidden inwardness higher highest human being's humankind Ibid ideal immanence important inasmuch infinite issues Johannes de Silentio journal entry Judge William Kant Kant's Kierkegaard says KW VIII SVIV KWXII.1 SVVII means ment movement of infinity necessity neighbor offense omnipotence one's oneself paganism paradox Philosophical Fragments philosophy point of departure point of view position presupposition pseudonyms qualitatively question reality regard relation relationship repentance repetition sense Sickness unto Death significance single individual single individual's Socrates Søren Kierkegaard sphere spiritual stage Stages on Life's suffering SVIII synthesis task temporal thereby thought tion truth Upbuilding Discourses Vigilius Haufniensis VII SVIV