Thursday, April 19, 2012

Methinks 48 IX A 86 - S. Kierkegaard.

Methinks I have written things which must move stones to tears, but my contemporaries are moved only to insults and envy.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

About Myself 54 XI I A 3I2 - S. Kierkegaard.

From very early on my life has been tormented in a way that must be hard to match; this is how I have differed from the common run. But I have differed from the common run of sufferers in turn by its never having occurred to me that there might be help to seek or to find among men; no, suffering was my distinction. 

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Self - S. Kierkegaard.

The human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates to itself, or that in the relation which is its relating to itself. The self is not the relation but the relation's relating to itself. A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and eternal, of freedom and necessity. In short a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two terms. Looked at in this way a human being is not yet a self. 
A. That Despair is the Sickness unto Death - The Sickness unto Death
Soren Kierkegaard 

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Relation with God 48 IX A 318 - S. Kierkegaard.

A person can relate to GOD in the truest way only as an individual, for one always best acquires the conception of one's own worthlessness alone, it is well nigh impossible to convey this to another with proper clarity, and it would in any case easily become affection. 

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Mistaking for reason 45 VI B 70:10 - S. Kierkegaard.

When in the graveyard one reads an inscription on a gravestone in which a man mourns his lost little daughter but finally breaks out in verse: Comfort thee, reason, she lives, singed Hilarius Master-Butcher -- there's much comedy here: first, in the context, the very name Hilarius has comic effect, then the worthy-sounding Master-Butcher, and finally the outburst: reason! One can imagine a professor of philosophy mistaking himself for reason, but a master-butcher would not imagine that. 

One 37 II A 626 - S. Kierkegaard.

Sympathetic egoism. Irony.
Hypochondriac egoism. Humor. 
 one is one's own nearest.

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