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Great article! Thanks for the unlock

We may have changed the course of evolution, but we didn't kill it. The animals and plants that are still alive will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

I would agree with Hannay's idea in principle, that the real Kierkegaard is shown through his discourses and later works. The Kierkegaard known to the history of philosophy isn't the true SK, IMO, but it makes for good reading and thinking. lol, I was using passages to demonstrate why I believe what...

What would be K's motive to simply tell a tale of faith in God? The bible does that sufficiently I think. So for me it is enough reason for me to ask," what other motive might K have for writing what he wrote?" Well, Kierkegard chose to write about the story of Abraham because that's what...

I would say so. Hegel thought he had a System to grasp the realities of the existence, to explain noumena that Kant couldn't explain. But that didn't turn out quite as Hegel had expected. Kierkegaard, on the other hand, had no pretensions of being a systematic philosopher to explain existence to us...

Agamennon says to you, I need to kill Iphigenia in order to save the city and save thousands of my fellow Greek citizens. Abraham says to you, I need to kill Isaac because God told me to. But then...suppose Isaac's fate is to become another Iphigenia? So still, I think K is saying that we can't kno...

Anyway...getting back to the book, I think alot can be said about K's meaning on the absurdity of existence on the last page of fear and trembling: "One must go further, one must go further.' This need to go on is of ancient standing. Heraclitus the 'obscure' who reposited his thoughts in his ...

I had not heard of this interpretation; it is an interesting angle; I do not think I would have thought of it. Indeed, K offers a kindness for Issacs blind faith in his father, and the faith of his father. That Abraham would be justified in making himslef a monster to Issac's eyes, that Issac could...

A perefctly wonderful synopsis and explnation. Did you come on this yourself? I would say that K moreso than delusional, says this situation is absurd. Is there no more discussion then? You understnad I so thhouroughly I wonder what else is to be said. I would wonder about your explanation of why h...

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Do you agree with Kierkegaard's conception of philosophy as a way to discover something about yourself, to transform yourself and to learn how to live an existentially fulfilling life? Or should philosophy be more concerned with bald French kings and the word différance?