Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and FaithCambridge University Press, 2006 M04 24 This volume is a study of the relationship between philosophy and faith in Søren Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments. It is also the first book to examine the role of Socrates in this body of writings, illuminating the significance of Socrates for Kierkegaard's thought. Jacob Howland argues that in the Fragments, philosophy and faith are closely related passions. A careful examination of the role of Socrates demonstrates that Socratic, philosophical eros opens up a path to faith. At the same time, the work of faith - which holds the self together with that which transcends it - is essentially erotic in the Socratic sense of the term. Chapters on Kierkegaard's Johannes Climacus and on Plato's Apology shed light on the Socratic character of the pseudonymous author of the Fragments and the role of 'the god' in Socrates' pursuit of wisdom. Howland also analyzes the Concluding Unscientific Postscript and Kierkegaard's reflections on Socrates and Christ. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 57 |
Section 3 | 79 |
Section 4 | 102 |
Section 5 | 129 |
Section 6 | 137 |
Section 7 | 157 |
Section 8 | 173 |
Section 9 | 188 |
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absolute difference absolute paradox According to Climacus actually Agnes Alcibiades analogy Apology Archimedes Aristophanes attempt beauty become believes Chaerephon chapter of Fragments Christianity Climacus notes Climacus observes Climacus writes Climacus’s coming into existence condition for understanding contemporary daimonic daimonion Delphi Diotima divine emphasis in original equal erotic love essential eternal happiness eternal truth fact follower at second Glaucon god’s Hegel Hegelians historical human ical ignorance incarnation infinite insofar Johannes Climacus Kierkegaard king knowledge ladder later learn the truth learner lover maiden means merman nature object occasion offense one’s oracle passion person Phaedrus Phenomenology of Spirit philosophical eros philosophical hypothesis philosophical quest possible Postscript precisely question readers recollection reflections relation relationship religious faith religious hypothesis second hand seems self-knowledge self-love sense simply Socratic philosophizing soul speak speculative philosophers speech subjective suggests Symposium teacher teaching Theaetetus thesis things thinker thinking thought thumos Typhon understanding the truth untruth wisdom words
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Page 207 - The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of history, is the simple conception of Reason...
Page 207 - ... the final cause of the World at large, we allege to be the consciousness of its own freedom on the part of Spirit, and ipso facto, the reality of that freedom. But that this term
Page 105 - Presumably it could occur to a human being to poetize himself in the likeness of the god or the god in the likeness of himself, but not to poetize that the god poetized himself in the likeness of a human being,48 for if the god gave no indication, how could it occur to a man that the blessed god could need him?
Page 29 - You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed.
Page 119 - However, one should not think slightingly of the paradoxical; for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling : a paltry mediocrity. But the highest pitch of every passion is always to will its own downfall...
References to this book
On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time Edward F. Mooney Limited preview - 2007 |