Søren Kierkegaard

Watts, Daniel

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“…"Since the development through the stages of existence has a spiritual character, it is not automatic, like physical growth, but requires a conscious choice by the individual" (Watts;2007). Thus, there is no logical reason why one might not stay in despair and avoid the choice of having to make a leap to a new and more demanding way of life" (Lawhead;2002).…”

Section: The Three Kierkegaardian Spheres Of Lifementioning

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“…Consequently their life lacks continuity, stability and genuine focus. Instead, existence is viewed in terms of possibilities that can be contemplated or briefly 'tasted' rather than in terms of long-term projects or ideals that are to be fulfilled (Watts;2007). A person in this stage does not put his lifestyle, given-attributes and behaviour to critical reflection.…”

Section: The Aesthetic Sphere Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Critical Presentation of the Three Kierkegaardian Spheres of Human Existence

Onwuatuegwu¹,

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2020

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It is an apparent danger in the existence of the modern man that abstraction is substituted for reality. The truth of the uniqueness of each man and the various situations of life where one cannot but make a personal choice and decision, compel man the need to authenticate his being. It is then pertinent at this time, when there is not only a loss of personal identity but more still a total flaw of existence in our modern society, to pinpoint what authentic life should be. Hence, a Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard has done a masterly work of authenticating one's existence, becoming an individual instead of being swallowed up in the appraisal of untrue crowd. Precisely, the researcher will apply in this work the philosophical method of critical reflection of Kierkegaardian three spheres of human existence to arrive at the best manner of approach to examine one's life as to live an authentic existence.

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Section: The Three Kierkegaardian Spheres Of Lifementioning

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Section: The Aesthetic Sphere Of Lifementioning

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A Critical Presentation of the Three Kierkegaardian Spheres of Human Existence

Onwuatuegwu¹,

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2020

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“…219 Michael Watts explains that inwardness is an "active involvement, manifested by passionate self-commitment to one's innermost moral or spiritual commitments. " 220 Subjective truth is an existential category because it is something that one appropriates into one's personal living. It is a direct personal involvement in the moment by moment unfolding of the reality of mystery in the process of one's own existing.…”

Section: Subjectivity Of the Heartmentioning

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“…It is a direct personal involvement in the moment by moment unfolding of the reality of mystery in the process of one's own existing. 221 It is the highest truth because it is the truth that ultimately defines a person's existence, for which one lives and dies for. Alyosha emerges from his crucible of doubt as a person who has made an earnest, lifelong commitment to a telos or vocation.…”

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Icons of Faith in The Brothers Karamazov: A Kierkegaardian Reading

Chiong

2020

Phil Sacra

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Through a creative and critical reading of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, this paper explores how the novel portrays a narrative of faith which corresponds to Søren Kierkegaard’s philosophical notion of faith. By analyzing the actions and utterances of the narrative agents, the researcher draws from the novel its conceptions of justice, death and rebirth, acceptance, active love and responsibility, the metaphor of the heart, and mystery. These are subsequently correlated to the Kierkegaardian categories of the double movement, teleological suspension of the ethical, infinite resignation, receiving again, subjectivity, and subjective truth. The paper has the double-aim of (1) providing a philosophical framework for understanding the convoluted issues of faith explored in the novel, and (2) presenting a novelistic expression of Kierkegaard’s philosophy. This dialogue between the two thinkers provides deep reflections on the experience of pain and loss in the world of a Benevolent God.

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“…(Kierkegaard 1992) According to Kierkegaard, every individual -not society or religion -is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it with passion and sincerity, or "authentic." (Watts 2003) The predominant value of existentialist thinking is freedom, its main virtue being authenticity.…”

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COVID-19 Pandemic – Philosophical Approaches

Sfetcu¹

2020

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The paper begins with a retrospective of the debates on the origin of life: the virus or the cell? The virus needs a cell for replication, instead the cell is a more evolved form on the evolutionary scale of life. In addition, the study of viruses raises pressing conceptual and philosophical questions about their nature, their classification, and their place in the biological world. The subject of pandemics is approached starting from the existentialism of Albert Camus and Sartre, the replacement of the exclusion ritual with the disciplinary mechanism of Michel Foucault, and about the Gaia hypothesis, developed by James Lovelock and supported in the current pandemic by Bruno Latour. The social dimensions of pandemics, their connection to global warming, which has led to an increase in infectious diseases, and the deforestation of large areas, which have caused viruses to migrate from their native area (their "reservoir") are highlighted below. The ethics of pandemics is approached from several philosophical points of view, of which the most important in a crisis of such global dimensions is utilitarianism which involves maximizing benefits for society in direct conflict with the usual (Kantian) view of respect for people as individuals. After a retrospective of the COVID-19 virus that caused the current pandemic, its life cycle and its history, with an emphasis on the philosophy of death, the concept of biopower initially developed by Foucault is discussed, with reference to the practice of modern states of control of the populations and the debate generated by Giorgio Agamben who states that what is manifested in this pandemic is the growing tendency to use the state of emergency as a normal paradigm of government. An interesting and much debated approach is the one generated by the works of Slavoj Žižek, who states that the current pandemic has led to the bankruptcy of the current "barbaric" capitalism, wondering if the path that humanity will take is a neo-communism. Another important negative effect is desocialization, with the conclusion of some philosophers that we cannot exist independently of our relationships with others, that a person's humanity depends on the humanity of those around him. The last section is dedicated to forecasting what the world will look like after the pandemic, and there are already signs of a paradigm shift, including the sudden disappearance of the "wall" ideology: a cough was enough to make it suddenly impossible to avoid the responsibility that every individual has it towards all living beings for the simple fact that he is part of this world, and of the desire to be part of it. The whole is always involved in part, because everything is, in a sense, in everything and in nature there are no autonomous regions that are an exception. The COVID-19 pandemic seems to restore the supremacy that once belonged to politics. One of the virtues of the virus is its ability to generate a more sober idea of freedom: to be free means to do what needs to be done in a specific situation.

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Søren Kierkegaard

Cited by 4 publications

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A Critical Presentation of the Three Kierkegaardian Spheres of Human Existence

A Critical Presentation of the Three Kierkegaardian Spheres of Human Existence

Icons of Faith in The Brothers Karamazov: A Kierkegaardian Reading

COVID-19 Pandemic – Philosophical Approaches

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