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Kierkegaard's father, Michael Pederson Kierkegaard, was a farm laborer who led a desperately unhappy life of grinding poverty. One day (I gather while he was still in his teens), full of rage at his lot, and God's apparent indifference to it, he stood on a hilltop, shook his fists at the sky, and solemnly cursed God.
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The problem that Kierkegaard saw in the ethical sphere was that it placed God in a subordinate space. Again, as in the move from the aesthetic to the ethical. the move from the ethical to the religious sphere must be accomplished through an act of the will.
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www.n4bz.org/gsr10/gsr1002.htm
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The former of these claims is an accurate description of Kierkegaard's views as represented in the Postscript. The existence of God, and the truth of Christianity, cannot be known with certainty. Furthermore, it is not simply a matter of adequate evidence not yet having been accumulated.
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www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/~cjewell/paper.html
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Søren Kierkegaard explains why the the existence of anything cannot be proved because logical argumentation merely develops the content of a conception. God's existence can only be known through a leap of faith. ... What is Kierkegaard's argument relating God's existence to proof?
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philosophy.lander.edu/intro/kierkegaard.shtml
philosophy.lander.edu/intro/kierkegaard.shtml
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Those needs differ markedly -- for Kant, the moral life collapses into a rationally incoherent "absurdum practicum" when stripped of the practical/rational postulates of God and immortality, while for Kierkegaard, the ethical subject's need for God flows from the experienced impossibility of existential self-synthesis...
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www.mun.ca/animus/1998vol3/staford3.htm
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– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals; And thus, the devotion to the creation of essence through a God guided, infantile-left-wanting existence had begun. The transformation of the self by the leaving behind of the selfly faculties, other than those core elements - faith, and passion.
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Soren Kierkegaard quote: God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. ... More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes...
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. Kierkegaard, Soren...
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quotationsbook.com/quote/34959/
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Kierkegaard claims that God may accomplish what we may see as absurd, and that we may recover what is lost to us by having faith in the absurd. Repetition works with a similar theme, working through his relationship with Regine by using the name Constantin Constantius for his own character.
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www.ccel.org/k/kierkegaard/
www.ccel.org/k/kierkegaard/
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