“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 03
February 3, 2009 at 7:34 am (Blooms)
Tags: Philosophical Fragments
“It is not impossible that it might occur to man to imagine himself the equal of God, or to imagine God the equal of man, but not to imagine that God would make himself into the likeness of man; for if God gave no sign, how could it enter into the mind of man that the blessed God should need him? This would be a most stupid thought, or rather, so stupid a thought could never have entered into his mind; though when God has seen fit to entrust him with it, he exclaims in worship: This thought did not arise in my own heart! and finds it a most miraculously beautiful thought.”
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~Source: Philosophical Fragments (1844)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
December 05
December 5, 2008 at 6:40 am (Blooms)
Tags: Philosophical Fragments
“If I imagine myself meeting Socrates or Prodicus or the servant-girl in another life, then again neither of them could be more to me than an occasion, which Socrates fearlessly expressed by saying that even in the lower world he proposed merely to ask questions; for the underlying principle of all questioning is that the one who is asked must have the Truth within himself, and be able to acquire it by himself.”
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~Source: Philosophical Fragments (1844)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
November 27
November 27, 2008 at 6:00 am (Blooms)
Tags: Or A Fragment Of Philosophy, Philosophical Fragments
“The minds of men so often yearn for might and power, and their thoughts are constantly being drawn to such things, as if by their attainment all mysteries would be resolved. Hence they do not even dream that there is sorrow in heaven as well as joy, the deep grief of having to deny the learner what he yearns for with all his heart, of having to deny him precisely because he is the beloved.”
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~Source: Philosophical Fragments, Or A Fragment Of Philosophy (1844)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
November 16
November 16, 2008 at 7:00 am (Blooms)
Tags: Philosophical Fragments
“For while no human being was ever truly an authority for another, or ever helped anyone by posing as such, or was ever able to take his client with him in truth, there is another sort of success that may be such methods be won; for it has never yet been known to fail that one fool, when he goes astray, takes several others with him.”
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~Source: Philosophical Fragments (1844)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
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)
September 12
September 12, 2008 at 9:19 am (Blooms)
Tags: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The "Philosophica, Johannes Climacus, Philosophical Fragments
“Only in subjectivity is there decision, to seek objectivity is to be in error. It is the passion of the infinite that is the decisive factor and not its content, for its content is precisely itself. In this manner subjectivity and the subjective ‘how’ constitute the truth.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments”
Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus (1846)
August 14
August 14, 2008 at 4:11 am (Blooms)
Tags: Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Philosophical Fragments
“Is not ‘bad’ an ethical category? What is the implication involved in
speaking of a bad infinite? The implication is that I told some person
responsible for refusing to end the infinite reflective process. And this
means, does it not, that I require him to do something? But as a genuinely
speculative philosopher I assume, on the contrary, that reflection ends
itself. If that is the case, why do I make any demand upon the thinker? And
what is it that I require of him? I ask him for a resolve.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments”
Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus (1846)
August 5
August 5, 2008 at 8:38 am (Blooms)
Tags: Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Philosophical Fragments
“When the religious speaker, in explaining that a man can do nothing of
himself, sets something wholly particular in relation to this principle, he
gives the auditor occasion to secure a profound insight into his own inmost
heart, helps him to penetrate the delusions and illusions, so as to lay
aside at least for a moment the bourgeois, small-town, sugar-coating in
which he otherwise goes wrapped. Essentially, the religious orator operates by
referring finally to the absolute relationship, that a man can do nothing
of himself; but he makes the transition by means of particulars which he
brings into connection with it.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments”
Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus (1846)
August 04
August 4, 2008 at 7:22 am (Blooms)
Tags: A Fragment Of Philosophy, Johannes Climacus, Philosophical Fragments
“When the disciple is in a state of Error (and otherwise we return to Socrates) but is none the less a human being, and now receives the condition and the Truth, he does not become a human being for the first time, since he was a man already. But he becomes another man; not in the frivolous sense of becoming another individual of the same quality as before, but in the sense of becoming a man of a different quality, or as we may call him: a new creature.”
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~Source: Philosophical Fragments, Or A Fragment Of Philosophy (1844)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
