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January 1965
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The demonstration of the anti-Christianity of the Postscript rests upon two arguments: (I) Christianity is made a relative, not an absolute, end. (2) By Climacus’ own dialectic Christianity becomes an objective truth, no longer an affair of the spirit.
January 1965
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7 Reads
Two approaches have characterized the study of Kierkegaard in English; the first is biographical, the second synoptic. Walter Lowrie, Kierkegaard, Eduard Geismar, Lectures on the Religious Thoughts of Soren Kierkegaard, Kurt Reinhardt, The Existentialist Revolt, and Theodor Haecker, Kierkegaard, The Cripple, all offer an understanding of Kierkegaard’s position by reference to an analysis of his life and certain crucial experiences, especially the Regine affair.
January 1965
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Man’s mortality is the problem of existence which is insoluble by speculative reason; death is the subject of Climacus’ concern: “I can by no means regard death as something I have understood. Before I pass over to universal history... it seems to me that I had better think about this, lest existence mock me, because I had become so learned... that I had forgotten to understand what will some time happen to me as to every human being — sometime, nay, what am I saying: suppose death were so treacherous as to come tomorrow!”1
January 1965
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11 Reads
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1 Citation
Man’s quest for eternal happiness, his salvation and freedom from death, is met by Christianity. To be a Christian is to accept the Paradox of Jesus as Christ, man as God: “The characteristic mark of Christianity is the paradox, the absolute paradox.”1
January 1965
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Climacus’ insistence upon the absurdity of the Paradox offers a way of maintaining the Christian nature of God; it allows the expectation that God will satisfy our desire for eternal happiness. The God of the Paradox is available for religious purposes. This must be proved.
January 1965
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Arguments against reason have had a long tradition in philosophy beginning with the skeptics and continuing to our century with Henri Bergson. I shall expound arguments against reason used by Climacus, and then attempt to show their importance to his thought.
January 1965
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4 Reads
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6 Citations
