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Jeff Mason on Kierkegaard’s three forms of life: the ethical, the aesthetic and the religious.

http://philosophynow.org/issues/24/Soren_Kierkegaard

This article on Søren Kierkegaard's three forms of life was published in Summer 1999, in Issue 24 of Philosophy Now. It was in the subscriber-only section of the Philosophy Now website but we've just unlocked it and made it generally accessible to all in celebration of Kierkegaard's 200th birthday, which is today! Happy Birthday, Søren!

Google are celebrating too: they have a Kierkegaard-inspired doodle on their homepage today.

'What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die."

Aside from god aspect... he speaks to my heart. 200 years It seems like yesterday i was ghugging brew in vienna
oooooh'
hick

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raisin' of the wrist.
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away,
'alf a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
and Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

hick

Prill

Aside from god aspect... he speaks to my heart. 200 years It seems like yesterday i was ghugging brew in vienna
oooooh'

Because of the God aspect......he speaks to my heart.......

The phrase leap of faith is normally connected to Kierkegaard, however he referred to a leap as a leap to faith.

He thought that this "leap" was vital concerning Christianity due to the paradoxes that exist in it.

It is necessary if a person decides to believe in a God and a man that existed as both, that person would have to make a leap of faith to believe in its validity.

and he did.

reasonvemotion wrote:Prill

Aside from god aspect... he speaks to my heart. 200 years It seems like yesterday i was ghugging brew in vienna
oooooh'

Because of the God aspect......he speaks to my heart.......

The phrase leap of faith is normally connected to Kierkegaard, however he referred to a leap as a leap to faith.

He thought that this "leap" was vital concerning Christianity due to the paradoxes that exist in it.

It is necessary if a person decides to believe in a God and a man that existed as both, that person would have to make a leap of faith to believe in its validity.

and he did.

i have no issue with god.
I do with a pack of hyenas called the church who say they are gods men.
they are hyenas of souls..

If ever s god came to earth it would 1st burn every church to ashes.
religion is not god. it is government clothed in the skins of all it has executed
a 1/4 ,Million women BURNT TO DEATH.\
Im sorry but the axiom of it was a along time ago does not cut the cheese/ id burn every church and priest without a flicker of remorse.
and while they burnt id piss on their ashes saying. Mea culpa you piece of shit.

Nikos of sparta

i have no issue with god.
I do with a pack of hyenas called the church who say they are gods men.
they are hyenas of souls..

If ever s god came to earth it would 1st burn every church to ashes.
religion is not god. it is government clothed in the skins of all it has executed
a 1/4 ,Million women BURNT TO DEATH.\
Im sorry but the axiom of it was a along time ago does not cut the cheese/ id burn every church and priest without a flicker of remorse.
and while they burnt id piss on their ashes saying. Mea culpa you piece of shit.

Nikos of sparta

Nikos

The scriptures has chapter and verse that relates to just that.


Matthew 7

Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’

Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Great article! Thanks for the unlock

reasonvemotion wrote:

i have no issue with god.
I do with a pack of hyenas called the church who say they are gods men.
they are hyenas of souls..

If ever s god came to earth it would 1st burn every church to ashes.
religion is not god. it is government clothed in the skins of all it has executed
a 1/4 ,Million women BURNT TO DEATH.\
Im sorry but the axiom of it was a along time ago does not cut the cheese/ id burn every church and priest without a flicker of remorse.
and while they burnt id piss on their ashes saying. Mea culpa you piece of shit.

Nikos of sparta

Nikos

The scriptures has chapter and verse that relates to just that.


Matthew 7

Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’

Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

I had not heard it.. thanks for heads up.
so jesus said that?

just whn you think you have hit rok bottom. somene throws you a shovel

One thing I have noticed about philosophy is that there are basically two kinds of philosophers, those who cater to personal needs and those who cater to system needs. Kierkegaard caters to personal needs, like Nietzsche and many 20th century philosophers. Personal need philosophers ask questions like Who or What am I. Systems philosophers, like Locke, Hegel, Marx, are more interested in how the system of humanity works. Many philosophers straddled both worlds.

The ancient Greek philosophers were basically system philosophers. Most of this forum is about personal needs rather than looking at the bigger picture.