“Is it not strange that there should be something such in existence, in relation to which everyone who knows it knows also that he has not invented it, this pass-me-by not stopping or capable of being stopped even if we approached all men in turn? This strange fact deeply impresses me, and casts over me a spell; for it constitutes a test of the hypothesis, and proves its truth. It would certainly be absurd to expect a man that he should of his own accord discover that he did not exist.” ——————————————————– ~Source: Philosophical Fragments (1844) Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
April 27
April 27, 2009 at 6:35 am (Blooms)
Tags: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The "Philosophica, Johannes Climacus
“If God were to reveal Himself in human form and grant a direct relationship by giving Himself, for example, the figure of a man six yards tall, then our hypothetical society man and captain of the hunt would doubtless have his attention aroused. But the spiritual relationship to God in truth, when God refuses to deceive, requires just that there be nothing remarkable about the figure, so that the society man would have to say: ‘There is nothing whatever to see.’”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments” (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
April 21
April 21, 2009 at 6:31 am (Blooms)
Tags: Johannes Climacus, Philosophical Fragments
“To hold the fate of many human beings in one’s hand, to transform the world, and then constantly understand that this is a jest: aye, that is earnestness indeed! But in order that this should be possible all finite passions must be atrophied, all selfishness outrooted, both the selfishness which wants to have everything, and the selfishness which proudly turns its back on everything. But just herein sticks the difficulty, and here arises the suffering in the dying away from self; and while it is the specific criterion of the ethical that is so easy to understand in its abstract expression, it is correspondingly difficult to understand in concreto.” ——————————————————– ~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the “Philosophical Fragments” (1846) Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
April 08
April 8, 2009 at 6:29 am (Blooms)
Tags: Johannes Climacus
“Herein lies the profundity of the Socratic thought and the noble humanity he so thoroughly expressed, which refused to enter into a false and vain fellowship with clever heads, but felt an equal kinship with a tanner; whence he soon ‘came to the conclusion that the study of Physics was not man’s proper business, and therefore began to philosophize about moral matters in the workshops and in the market-place’ (Diogenes Laertius, II, V, 21), but philosophized with equal absoluteness everywhere.” ——————————————————– ~Source: Philosophical Fragments (1844) Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
March 07
March 7, 2009 at 7:50 am (Blooms)
Tags: Johannes Climacus, Philosophical Fragments
“Now if the learner is to acquire the Truth, the Teacher must bring it to him; and not only so, but he must also give him the condition necessary for understanding it. For if the learner were in his own person the condition for understanding the Truth, he need only recall it.”
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~Source: Philosophical Fragments (1844)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
February 08
February 8, 2009 at 8:18 am (Blooms)
Tags: Johannes Climacus, Philosophical Fragments
“Ethically the ideality is the real within the individual himself. The real is an inwardness that is infinitely interested in existing; this is exemplified in the ethical individual.” —————————————- ~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments” Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus (1846)
February 04
February 4, 2009 at 7:01 am (Blooms)
Tags: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The "Philosophica, Johannes Climacus
“All ironical observations depend upon paying attention to the ‘how,’ whereas the gentleman with whom the ironist has the honor to converse is attentive only to the ‘what.’ A man protests loudly and solemnly, ‘This is my opinion.’ However, he does not confine himself to delivering this formula verbatim, he explains himself further, he ventures to vary the expressions. Yes, for it is not so easy to vary as one thinks it is.” ——————————————————– ~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments” (1846) Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
December 10
December 10, 2008 at 6:51 am (Blooms)
Tags: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The "Philosophica, Johannes Climacus
“Even though it be true that the conception of God is the absolute help, it is also the only help which is absolutely capable of revealing to man his own helplessness. The religious man lies in the finite like a helpless child; he desires absolutely to hold fast to the conception, and precisely this annihilates him; he desires to do all and, while he summons his will to the task, his impotence begins, since for a finite being there is always a meanwhile; he desires to do all, to express this religious absoluteness, but he cannot make this finite commensurable for that purpose.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To the “Philosophical Fragments” (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
November 10
November 10, 2008 at 5:29 am (Blooms)
Tags: Johannes Climacus, Philisophical Fragments
“There is no follower [of Christ] at second hand. The first and the latest generation are essentially alike, except that the latter generation has the occasion in the report of the contemporary generation, whereas the contemporary generation has the occasion in its immediate contemporaneity and therefore owes no generation anything.”
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~Source: Philisophical Fragments (1844)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
November 04
November 4, 2008 at 6:18 am (Blooms)
Tags: Johannes Climacus, Philosophical Fragments
“Ethically the ideality is the real within the individual himself. The real is an inwardness that is infinitely interested in existing; this is exemplified in the ethical individual.” —————————————- ~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments” Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus (1846)
