Soren Kierkegaard, Various Readings by Various
The writings listed here represent books about Soren Kierkegaard. A fragment of his work, On the Dedication to "That Single Individual", has made it to the public domain. Who was Soren Kierkegaard? He was a Danish philosopher and religious author; b......
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The writings listed here represent books about Soren Kierkegaard. A
fragment of his work, On the Dedication to "That Single
Individual", has made it to the public domain. Who was Soren
Kierkegaard? He was a Danish philosopher and religious author; b.
Copenhagen May 6, 1813; d. there Nov. 11, 1855. His father,
Michael, a clothing merchant, once cursed God when he was young.
This one incident caused him so much distress that it affected him
with a deep melancholy, which he transferred to poor Soren. Michael
was an evil man. He tricked Soren into thinking that the whole
world existed in his own living room by taking him for imaginary
walks about the neighborhood, or anywhere Soren wanted to go, as
long as it existed in his imagination only. Later in life, when
Soren was on his own, he rarely left Copenhagen, but he did walk
about the streets and greet passersby, discussing events of the
day. After 6 years of “splendid inactivity” he obtained his degree
in Theology from the University of Copenhagen with the submission
of his thesis paper in 1841, On the Concept of Irony with Continual
Reference to Socrates. Just before graduation he fell in love with
Regine Olsen and proposed that they marry. She accepted, but Soren
was unable to live up to the requirements of marriage and broke off
the engagement after a short period. He lived a life of despair
afterward. His father, Regine, and Socrates were the major
influences in his life. So say all the authors in the following
readings, but I disagree. Soren considered a variety of callings,
he could be philosopher, a scientist, or a preacher, but he
ultimately decided that Christianity was his interest. He wondered
if J. P. Mynster, bishop of Zealand and head of the National Church
of Denmark, was preaching true Christianity or not. He decided at
this point that his “task is a Socratic task, to revise the
conception of what it means to be a Christian”. He was interested
only in the “How” of Christianity, not the “What” of Christianity.
He became an author, an author who was always “in the process of
becoming” what he would be. He became many authors, Victor Eremita,
Johannes de Silentio, Johannes Climacus, Vigilius Haufniensis,
Nicolaus Notabene, Hilarius Bookbinder, Frater Taciturnus, and
Soren Kierkegaard. All of them wrote books between the years 1843
and 1855. He used his imagination to create each author as an
existing individual Human being, one who exists, “between the
esthetic and the ethical” where “the esthetic is existing; the
ethicist is struggling against the religious”, as one “aware of the
religious-and the leap” of faith, one “who ordinarily despairs of
nothing, despairs of repetition”, one who has “used a love affair
in relation to what it means to exist”, one who believed “that in
relation to God we are always in the wrong,” one who cries to God
“I cannot understand you, but I will love you” one who as "the
ethicist, in despair, has chosen himself out of terror of having
himself" and finally as one who said “that truth is objectively a
paradox shows precisely that subjectivity is truth” so “Only truth
that builds up is truth for you”. The authors are all in agreement
that Soren's father, Regine, and Socrates were influential in his
life. None of them were able to state that Jesus Christ had any
influence upon him at all. Soren Kierkegaard said, "God is not like
a king in a predicament, who says to the highly trusted Minister of
the Interior, “You must do everything, you must create the
atmosphere for our proposal and win public opinion to our side.”
"But in relation to God, there are no secret instruction for a
human being any more than there are any backstairs. Even the most
eminent genius who comes to give a report had best come in fear and
trembling, for God is not hard pressed for geniuses. He can create
a few legion of them if needed." God wants each individual to
examine to judge and to decide.
http://www.archive.org/details/forselfexaminati011847mbp Here is a
link to to some of his works
http://www.religion-online.org/listbycategory.asp?Cat=110 one to a
biography
http://www.stolaf.edu/collections/kierkegaard/aboutkierk.html - and
a link to Kierkegaard reorganized (systemetized?) -
http://www.plough.com/ebooks/Provocations.html - (Summary by Soupy)
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