Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Philosophical Suicide - a misunderstanding of Kierkegaard's Philosophy

Religiousspiritual, or abstract belief in a transcendent realm, being, or idea: a solution in which one believes in the existence of a reality that is beyond the Absurd, and, as such, has meaning. Kierkegaard stated that a belief in anything beyond the Absurd requires a non-rational but perhaps necessary religious acceptance in such an intangible and empirically unprovable thing (now commonly referred to as a "leap of faith"). However, Camus regarded this solution, and others, as "philosophical suicide". 
Wikipedia - Absurdism
Why is it so? This misunderstanding - philosophical suicide - occurs because of having no experience of belief's state, which is not reachable for everyone. There could be also a misconception of goal of philosophy in human's life.

Lord! Give us weak eyes for things of no account (not importance), and eyes of full clarity in all truth.
The Sickness unto Death - S. Kierkegaard