Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments
Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments
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Paperback / softback
£12.99
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567033741
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 01/08/2013
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
Søren Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments remains one of the most insightful yet idiosyncratic works in Christian theology. Writing under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus he seeks to answer the question 'can the truth be learned?' The truth in question is that of faith and in answering the question Climacus invents a solution that incidentally resembles Christianity, explaining how the truth can only be brought by God and accepted by a learner who is transformed by grace. Alluding to Socrates, this concise work offers a radical alternative to the views of Kierkegaard's contemporaries on such central topics as the person and work of Christ, the nature of faith and the possibility of religious knowledge.
Part I: Context - Life and times of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55)
- Kierkegaard's early aesthetic/pseudonymous authorship
- The influence of G.W.F. Hegel and German Idealist philosophy
- The importance of Socrates, irony and pseudonyms
- Kierkegaard's later religious authorship
- Kierkegaard's 'attack upon Christendom'
Part II: Philosophical Fragments
- Preface - introducing Johannes Climacus
- Thought-Project - can the truth be learned?
- The God as Teacher and Saviour - why God became man
- The Absolute Paradox - going beyond reason
- The Offence at the Paradox - reason has it's limits
- The Situation of the Contemporary Follower - faith and knowledge
