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Publisher: Icon Books Ltd (September 3, 2015)
Publication Date: September 3, 2015
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Language: English
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Very good introduction to this philosopher . Very entertaining and it entices the reader to delve more deeply into Kierkegaard ( at least it had that affect on me )
nice little book. fairly scholarly and definitely modern
My son came home from summer camp wanting an introduction to Kierkegaard. Stranger things have happened, right? This fit the bill, and my son loves it.
Robinson appears to be a well read Kierkegaard scholar. There are interesting tidbits spread throughout the book. New to me were facts concerning his personal life that do illuminate his thinking and writing output. The problem is significant works were left out of this extremely concise book. That might be ok if that point was made in the book. For instance nothing was said about Concluding Unscientific Postscript. All in all I can recommend this book, but it is only a light perusal and it does not shed enough light on Kierkegaard's place in the history of philosophy. There is a fun factor to all of Kierkegaard's living and thinking that escapes this books usefulness.
Good illustrations!
This book provides a detailed insight into Kierkegaard's personality and complexity. He is "still rather more than a neurotic bundle of sexual repression, hypochondria, father-fixation, and religious mania." He is considered by some to be the father of Existentialism, and many of the modern-day Existentialists look to him as such. Kierkegaard's major focus was philosophy and religion. He also considered the objectively subjective.Michael Kierkegaard, his father, had a "conflict" with God, and carried it to his grave. Soren Kierkegaard had a similar religious mania that he carried throughout his life and to his grave as well. It also was reflected in most of his 35 books and the plethora of articles he wrote in his journal.Kierkegaard is an interesting personality, and this book is worth the read. It has a "For Further Reading" section with several excellent recommendations . It is annotated.
Soren Kierkegaard (SK) reminds us that philosophy should tell us not what we “could know,†but what we “should know.†(What good is “objective truth,“ if we don’t know what to do with it?)SK became a free spirit at the university of Berlin, and ended up majoring in Philosophy rather than going into Theology as his father had wished. When his father died SK dedicated his life to his father’s legacy.Along with Karl Marx, he attended Schelling’s lectures on Hegel, a dominant influence in philosophy at the time. Hegel’s influence was due in part to his dialectical structure for philosophical analysis — thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Reason, in Hegel’s mind, was the best method for getting at the truth. However, reaching non-contradictory conclusions was another matter. For often when you arrived at results, conclusions went unopposed. That is why he believed his dialectical structure was a good way to root out contradictions.Hegel also believed that understanding human knowledge was an evolutionary process, one that was historical and cultural rather than timeless and fleeting. He believed that dialectical mediation could lead us up through levels of awareness until we reach the absolute truth about everything.The logic of the Hegelian ontology thus went as follows: Reality can be divided into “objects†and “thoughts.†Thoughts categorize and explain the world of objects as they appear to us. Humans live in communities, where the individual is subordinate to the family, the family to society, and society to the State; and where intercourse is conducted like business transactions, used to secure personal and business benefits.SK parted with Hegel perception of society as collections of individuals engaged in business like transactions. In SK’s mind, freedom had to be more than just business transactions and the State more than just night watchman over human transactions. SK thus believed that the individual existed only as he related to his society and community. Marx agreed with Hegel, and used his dialectical structure to analyze human interactions, which he agreed were primarily economic.SK believed that Hegel’s ontology is like reading a recipe to a hungry man. It is an outsider’s view of the human condition: too theoretical — telling us nothing about how to live our lives. But also, by being all-inclusive, and historic, Hegel’s ontology embraced all time and history — the past, the present and the future.SK distrusted this all inclusiveness, as he believed that while life must be understood backwards, it must be lived forwards. Hegel’s methodology thus was seen by him as yet another attempt to reduce humanity to a formula. But humanity cannot be reduced to mere concepts and formulas. For it is the fears, thoughts, desires, dispositions, neuroses, choices, and commitments of individual human beings that make them human.Thus, philosophy must be a practical guide to living, even if it cannot tell you what to do. Living is not an activity that can be mediated by some ongoing dialectic. Life involves risks; choices must be made; it must be lived forwards, into the future towards something. It implies a commitment to act in the future. So it is not possible to wait until later, and then perform an analysis of it after the fact.SK, writing under various pseudonyms, assuming different moral personae, expressed these views in a number of his writings. The persona were masks that sometimes actually became him. His books do not attempt to steer the reader towards an ultimate moral consensus, because humans cannot be contained in a single moral formula. That is to say, human existence, goes beyond mere breathing, eating, acting, and yes, even beyond Descartes’ thinking too.One must choose, in order to be. The choice one makes must be grounded in ethics, not in rote obedience to society. For although trapped in time, humans can choose to develop and change. SK believed that by living through the categories of good and evil, man can decide that life is not a mere game. In this way, the ethical individual gains an overview of life, and a change in his conception of time. Living ethically is one way of expressing the universal in life.Living the ethical life also puts man on a ladder that moves him up several stages of awareness to higher forms of humanity. The top ladder is absolute truth. Hegel’s dialectical formula can tell us how different each stage of ethical life is from another, but it cannot tell us which one to choose.Religion is one of the stages along this ladder of awareness. Religion is an insular subculture, a form of life that makes sense only from the inside. No one inside can fully describe it for you. To understand it, you must make a leap of faith into it.But then there is also the concept of freedom, that mysterious attribute that only has meaning when an individual refuses to submit to group approval. How you choose to be free is more important than what you choose as the object of your freedom — even if that choice happens to be religion. The upward climb in awareness to absolute truth, thus goes well beyond religion. Five Stars
I really enjoyed this book and the fabulous illustrations. I took four philosophy classes in the 1980s because they were electives that could meet a liberal requirement and there was always room in those classes. All were a massive amount of work. Sure could have used this book then. Looking forward to reading the other graphic guides free with my prime membership. Thanks Amazon.
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