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Concluding Unscientific PostScript

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by Soren Kierkegaard

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      Soren Kierkegaard

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      Princeton University Press

    • Published

      March 2019

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    Contents include:

    Foreword Editor's Preface Introduction by the Editor Preface Introduction BOOK ONE: The Objective Problem Concerning the Truth of Christianity Introductory Remarks Chapter I: The Historical Point of View

    1. The Holy Scriptures
    2. The Church
    3. The Proof of the Centuries for the Truth of Christianity Chapter II: The Speculative Point of View BOOK TWO: The Subjective Problem, The Relation of the Subject to the Truth of Christianity, The Problem of Becoming a Christian PART ONE: Something About Lessing Chapter I: An Expression of Gratitude Chapter II: Theses Possibly or Actually Attributable to Lessing
    4. The subjective existing thinker has regard to the dialectics of the process of communication
    5. The existing subjective thinker is in his existential relation to the truth as negative as he is positive; he has a much humor as he has essential pathos; and he is constantly in process
      of becoming, i.e. he is always striving
    6. Lessing has said that accidental historical truths can never serve as proofs for eternal truths of the reason; and that the transition by which it is proposed to base an eternal truth upon
      historical testimony is a leap
    7. Lessing has said that, if God held all truth in His right hand, and in His left the lifelong pursuit of it, he would choose the left hand
      A. A logical system is possible
      B. An existential system is possible PART TWO: How the Subjectivity of the Individual Must be Qualified in Order that the Problem May Exist for Him Chapter I: The Task of Becoming Subjective. The conclusion that would be forced upon ethics if the attainment of subjectivity were not the highest task confronting a human being--Considerations left out of account in connection with the closer understanding of this--Examples of thinking directed towards becoming subjective Chapter II: The Subjective Truth, Inwardness; Truth is Subjectivity
      Appendix. A Glance at the Contemporary Effort in Danish Literature Chapter III: Real or Ethical Subjectivity--The Subjective Thinker
    8. Existence and Reality
    9. Possibility as higher than Reality--Reality as higher than Possibility--Poetic and Intellectual Ideality--Ethical Ideality
    10. The Simultaneity of the Individual Factors of Subjectivity in the Existing Subject--The Constrast between this Simultaneity and the Speculative Process
    11. The Subjective Thinker--his Task, his Form, his Style Chapter IV: The Problem of the Fragments: How can an Eternal Happiness be based upon Historical Knowledge?
      Section I. For Orientation in the Plan of the Fragments 1. That the point of departure was taken in the pagan consciousness, and why
    12. The importance of a preliminary agreement concerning what Christianity is, before there can be any question of mediating between Christianity and speculative thought. The absence of such
      an agreement favors the proposal of medication, while at the same time making any mediation illusory; the presence of such an agreement precludes mediation
    13. The problem of the Fragments viewed as a problem, introductory not to Christianity, but to becoming a Christian Section II. The Problem Itself. The eternal happiness of the individual is decided in time through the relationship to something historical, which is furthermore of such a character as to oinclude in its composition that which by virtue of its essence cannot become historical, and must therefore become such by virtue of the absurd A. Existential Pathos
    14. The Initial Expression for Existential Pathos: the absolute direction (respect) toward the absolute telos, expressed in action through the transformation of the individual's existence
      Aesthetic Pathos--The deceptiveness of the principle of mediation--The medieval monastic movement--The simultaneous maintenance of an absolute relationship to the absolute telos and a
      relative relationship to the relative ends
    15. The Essential Expression for Existential pathos: Suffering--Fortune and misforutne as the expression for an aesthetic view of life, in constradistinction to suffering as the expression of a
      religious view (illustrated by reference to the religious discourse)--The Reality of suffering (humor)--The reality of suffering in the last instance as evidence for the possession by
      the existing individual of a relationship to an eternal happiness--The illusion of religiosity--The category of Anfechtung--The primary ground and significance of the religious
      suffering: The dying away from the life of immediacy while still remaining in the finite--An edifying divertisement--Humor as an incognito for religiosity
    16. The Decisive Expression for existential pathos: Guilt--That the investigation goes backward instead of forward--The eternal recollection of guilt is the highest expression for the relation
      between the consciousness of guilt and an eternal happiness--Lower expressions for the consciousness of guilt, and corresponding forms of satisfaction--Self-imposted penance--Humor--The
      religiosity of hidden inwardness
      Intermediate Clause between A and B B. The Dilectical
    17. The dialectical contradiction which constitutes the breach: to expect an eternal happiness in time through a relationship to something else in time
    18. The dialectical constradiction that an eternal happiness is based upon something historical
    19. The dialectical contradiction that the historical fact here in question is not a simple historical fact, but is constituted by that which only against its nature can become historical,
      hence by virtue of the absurd
      Appendix to B. The retroactive effect of the dialectical upon the pathetic, and the factor simultaneously present in the pathos
      (a) The consciousness of sin
      (b) The possibililty of offense
      (c) The smart of sympathy Chapter V. Conclusion. About Childish Christianity Appendix. For an Understa

    Specification

    • Author

      Soren Kierkegaard

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Princeton University Press

    • Published

      March 2019

    • Weight

      618g

    • Dimensions

      134 x 204 x 31 mm

    • ISBN

      9780691622330

    • ISBN-10

      0691622337

    • Eden Code

      4976761

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    • Author/Creator: Soren Kierkegaard

    • ISBN: 9780691622330

    • Publisher: Princeton University Press

    • Release Date: March 2019

    • Weight: 618g

    • Dimensions: 134 x 204 x 31 mm

    • Eden Code: 4976761


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