Kierkegaard's Writings, VII, Volume 7 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kierkegaard's Writings, VII, Volume 7 write by Søren Kierkegaard. This book was released on 2013-04-21. Kierkegaard's Writings, VII, Volume 7 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. Through Climacus, Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with Greek and modern philosophical thinking. In Philosophical Fragments he begins with Greek Platonic philosophy, exploring the implications of venturing beyond the Socratic understanding of truth acquired through recollection to the Christian experience of acquiring truth through grace. Published in 1844 and not originally planned to appear under the pseudonym Climacus, the book varies in tone and substance from the other works so attributed, but it is dialectically related to them, as well as to the other pseudonymous writings. The central issue of Johannes Climacus is doubt. Probably written between November 1842 and April 1843 but unfinished and published only posthumously, this book was described by Kierkegaard as an attack on modern speculative philosophy by "means of the melancholy irony, which did not consist in any single utterance on the part of Johannes Climacus but in his whole life. . . . Johannes does what we are told to do--he actually doubts everything--he suffers through all the pain of doing that, becomes cunning, almost acquires a bad conscience. When he has gone as far in that direction as he can go and wants to come back, he cannot do so. . . . Now he despairs, his life is wasted, his youth is spent in these deliberations. Life does not acquire any meaning for him, and all this is the fault of philosophy." A note by Kierkegaard suggests how he might have finished the work: "Doubt is conquered not by the system but by faith, just as it is faith that has brought doubt into the world!."
Kierkegaard's Writings, XII, Volume II
Kierkegaard's Writings, XII, Volume II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kierkegaard's Writings, XII, Volume II write by Søren Kierkegaard. This book was released on 2013-04-21. Kierkegaard's Writings, XII, Volume II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, Concluding Unscientific Postscript is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is Climacus's characterization of the subjective thinker's relation to the truth of Christianity. At once ironic, humorous, and polemical, this work takes on the "unscientific" form of a mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. Whereas the movement in the earlier pseudonymous writings is away from the aesthetic, the movement in Postscript is away from speculative thought. Kierkegaard intended Postscript to be his concluding work as an author. The subsequent "second authorship" after The Corsair Affair made Postscript the turning point in the entire authorship. Part One of the text volume examines the truth of Christianity as an objective issue, Part Two the subjective issue of what is involved for the individual in becoming a Christian, and the volume ends with an addendum in which Kierkegaard acknowledges and explains his relation to the pseudonymous authors and their writings. The second volume contains the scholarly apparatus, including a key to references and selected entries from Kierkegaard's journals and papers.
Johannes Climacus
Johannes Climacus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Johannes Climacus write by Søren Kierkegaard. This book was released on 2001. Johannes Climacus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Kierkegaard died at the age of forty-two, the papers found in his desk included Johannes Climacus, probably written in the winter of 1842-43. The book is a novel, as well as a work of philosophy, which tells the tale of what happens to the young Johannes Climacus as he decides to become a philosopher. At first in awe of the great thinkers, especially Hegel he sets out to follow their philosophical example by exploring the maxim 'Everything must be doubted'. The more he examines this idea, however, the more he realises how deluded his philosophical heroes are. No human life - not even a philosopher's - could ever fit into the orderly paragraphs and chapters of systematic philosophy and Hegel was, therefore, like a man who builds an enormous castle but lives in a shack nearby. Republished here in a revised translation, Johannes Climacus demonstrates that philosophy can be humorous and entertaining as well as conceptually rigorous. With its extraordinary combination of literary finesse and sharp philosophical wit, it serves as an excellent introduction to a thinker whose stylistic and philosophical talents make even Nietzsche seem tame.
Kierkegaard's Writings
Kierkegaard's Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kierkegaard's Writings write by Søren Kierkegaard. This book was released on 1978. Kierkegaard's Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Kierkegaard's Writings
Kierkegaard's Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kierkegaard's Writings write by Søren Kierkegaard. This book was released on . Kierkegaard's Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
