The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard - 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 The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard write by Richard McCombs. This book was released on 2013-03-04. The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard McCombs presents Søren Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus, McCombs interprets Kierkegaardian rationality as a striving to become a self consistently unified in all its dimensions: thinking, feeling, willing, acting, and communicating. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard's strategy of feigning irrationality is sometimes brilliantly instructive, but also partly misguided. This fresh reading of Kierkegaard addresses an essential problem in the philosophy of religion—the relation between faith and reason.
Faith and Reason in Kierkegaard
Faith and Reason in Kierkegaard - 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 Faith and Reason in Kierkegaard write by F. Russell Sullivan. This book was released on 2009-11-11. Faith and Reason in Kierkegaard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this work, Sullivan analyzes the relationship between faith and reason in Kierkegaard's philosophy. Kierkegaard is widely considered to be an irrationalist. Sullivan argues that he views faith as reasonable in a distinct way that must be uncovered. In some of his pseudonymous works, Kierkegaard speaks of the movement of faith as paradoxical and absurd. There is evidence from his non-pseudonymous works that Kierkgaard does not consider faith irrational. He denigrates reason only in that he wishes to impress upon nominal Christians (who look upon faith only as a body of doctrine) that more and more understanding of the tenets of faith can never yield logical certainty. The doctrines of faith can be argued pro and contra. For Kierkgaard, faith in this context is illogical, but not irrational. In his religious works, Kierkgaard's notion of reason is inextricably tied in with that of his recalcitrance of the will. Reason (logic and speculative thought) attests to its own limits in regard to doctrinal faith, but it also can point to that which is a reasonable step, even when logic alone is of no avail. For Kierkgaard, subjectivity is a necessary - but not sufficient - condition of religious faith. In actuality, Kierkgaard is not presenting an epistemological theory at all, but through his pseudonymous authors' emphasis upon subjectivity he hopes that nominal Christians will begin to experience the need for Christ. Kierkgaard believes that only if inauthentic Christians realize that the religious option cannot be decided by logical inquiry into the doctrines of faith, and then experience their own inauthenticity and the futility of any unaided willful efforts to remedy it, will the act of faith in Christ as a viable alternative appear as reasonable.
Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence
Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence - 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 and the Refusal of Transcendence write by Steven Shakespeare. This book was released on 2017-12-21. Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence challenges the standard view that Kierkegaard's God is infinitely other than the world. It argues that his work immerses us in the paradoxical nature of existence itself, and opposes any flight into another world.
Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling - 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 Fear and Trembling write by Soren Kierkegaard. This book was released on 2006-05-30. Fear and Trembling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world. Regarded as the father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal "leap of faith."
Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'
Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript' - 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 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript' write by Rick Anthony Furtak. This book was released on 2010-07-29. Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Søren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment. These 2010 essays written by international Kierkegaard scholars offer a plurality of critical approaches to this fundamental text of existential philosophy. They cover hotly debated topics such as the tension between the Socratic-philosophical and the Christian-religious; the identity and personality of Kierkegaard's pseudonym 'Johannes Climacus'; his conceptions of paradoxical faith and of passionate understanding; his relation to his contemporaries and to some of his more distant predecessors; and, last but not least, his pertinence to our present-day concerns.
