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A leap of faith , in its most commonly used meaning, is the act of believing in or accepting something intangible or unprovable, or without empirical evidence. It is an act commonly associated with ...
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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( /ˈkɪərkəɡɑrd/ or /ˈkɪərkəɡɒr/ ;   ) (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkega...
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Essay about Kierkegaard's life, work, and philosophy by William McDonal ... Christian faith, for Kierkegaard, is not a matter of learning dogma by rote. It is a matter of the individual repeatedly renewing h/er passionate subjective relationship to an object which can never be known, but only believed in.
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Kierkegaard's phrase that expresses this commitment is the leap of faith. This phrase is frequently used in other ways (i.e. as trust or taking a risk). Kierkegaard meant it in a very specific way. Truth acquired this way is; ... Kierkegaard: Leap of Faith...
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But embracing Christianity requires leaving rationality behind and taking a bold leap of faith. The existentialist movement of the early twentieth century was the natural heir to Kierkegaard's thought. Philosophers like Sartre and Nietzsche also emphasised the limits of logic and personal choice.
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Leap of faith -- metaphor used by the 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in his Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift (1846; Concluding Unscientific Postscript) to describe commitment to an objective uncertainty, specifically to the Christian God.
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This topic in Philosophy & Religion is about kierkegaard's leap[ of faith to pascal's wager?. ... How can a mind as intelligent and introspective and incredulous as this manage to actually take a leap of faith to God? I have never understood this about Kierkegaard. I can understand a leap to God in the broadest sense of...
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(1813-1855) Kierkegaard developed a philosophy based on the idea of the importance of the individual and individual choice. ... You can only reach the third stage through a leap of faith because there aren't any rational reasons for making this move. You have to make it without any philosophical or conventional...
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