Kierkegaard And The Limits Of The Ethical

Author : Anthony Rudd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198752180

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Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical by Anthony Rudd Pdf

This book is a discussion of some of Kierkegaard's central ideas, showing their relevance to contemporary debates in epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. Anthony Rudd's aim is not simply to expound Kierkegaard's ideas but to draw on them creatively in order to illuminate questions about the foundations of morality and the nature of personal identity, as discussed by analytical philosophers such as MacIntyre, Parfit, Williams, and Foot. Rudd seeks a way forward from the sterile conflict between the view that morality and religion are based on objective reasoning and the view that they are merely expressions of subjective emotions. He argues that morality and religion must be understood in terms of the individual's search for a sense of meaning in his or her own life, but emphasizes that this does not imply that values are arbitrary or merely subjective.

Author : Anthony Rudd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199660049

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Self, Value, and Narrative by Anthony Rudd Pdf

Anthony Rudd presents a striking new account of the self as an ethical, evaluative being. He draws on Kierkegaard's thought to present a case for an ancient and currently neglected view: that the tensions which are constitutive of selfhood can only be reconciled through the understanding of the self as guided by an objective Good.

Author : Jeffrey Hanson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253025029

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Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith by Jeffrey Hanson Pdf

“A thorough, considered, and provocative treatment of what justifiably remains Kierkegaard’s most famous book.” —Marginalia Review of Books Soren Kierkegaard’s masterful work Fear and Trembling interrogates the story of Abraham and Isaac, finding there one of the most profound and critical dilemmas in all of religious philosophy. While several commentaries and critical editions exist, Jeffrey Hanson offers a distinctive approach to this crucial text. Hanson gives equal weight to all three of Kierkegaard’s “problems,” dealing with Fear and Trembling as part of the entire corpus of Kierkegaard’s thought and putting all parts into relation with each other. Additionally, he offers a distinctive analysis of the Abraham story and other biblical texts, giving particular attention to questions of poetics, language, and philosophy, especially as each relates to the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. Presented in a thoughtful and fresh manner, Hanson’s claims are original and edifying. This new reading of Kierkegaard will stimulate fruitful dialogue on well-traveled philosophical ground.

Author : W. Glenn Kirkconnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441146731

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Kierkegaard on Ethics and Religion by W. Glenn Kirkconnell Pdf

Søren Kierkegaard is simultaneously one of the most obscure philosophers of the Western world and one of the most influential. His writings have influenced atheists and faithful alike. Yet there is still widespread disagreement on many of the most important aspects of his thought. Kierkegaard was deliberately obscure in his writings, forcing the reader to interpret and reflect as Socrates did with incessant questioning. But at the same time that Kierkegaard was producing his esoteric, pseudonymous philosophical writings, he was also producing simpler, direct religious writings. Kierkegaard always claimed that he was, despite appearances, a religious writer. This important book accepts that claim and tests it. By using Kierkegaard's direct writings as he suggests, as the key to understanding the more obscure, indirect works, W. Glenn Kirkconnell aims to develop a coherent understanding of Kierkegaard's authorship and his theories.

Author : Anthony Rudd,John Davenport
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628927344

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Love, Reason, and Will by Anthony Rudd,John Davenport Pdf

Love, Reason, and Will: Kierkegaard After Frankfurt introduces and investigates themes common to Harry G. Frankfurt and Søren Kierkegaard, focusing particularly on their understanding of love. Several distinguished contributors argue that Kierkegaard's insights about love, volition, and identity can help us to evaluate aspects of Frankfurt's well-known arguments about love and caring; similarly, Frankfurt's analyses of the higher-order will, valuing, and self-love help clarify themes in Kierkegaard's Works of Love and other books. By bringing these two key thinkers into conversation with each other, we may glean a new understanding of the structure of love, reasons for love or deriving from loving, and more broadly, the central ethical questions of "how to live" and to develop an authentic identity and meaningful life. Love, Reason, and Will will appeal to readers interested in the philosophy of action and emotions, continental thought (especially in the existential tradition), the study of character in psychology, and theological work on neighbor-love and virtues.

Author : K. E. Løgstrup
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198855989

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The Ethical Demand by K. E. Løgstrup Pdf

The Ethical Demand (1956) by K. E. L�gstrup is one of the great works of modern moral philosophy: it is presented here in a new translation with introduction and notes. L�gstrup puts forward his distinctive view concerning our vulnerability to each other and what this requires of us in response. He starts by considering Jesus's 'proclamation' to love your neighbour and how this can be understood in 'purely human terms' as relating to basic features of our existence. Reflecting on the phenomenon of trust, L�gstrup emphasizes the fundamental interdependence of human life and how this gives rise to an 'ethical demand' on us to care for the other, which he characterizes as radical, silent, one-sided, and unfulfillable. In order to make sense of a demand of this sort, L�gstrup argues, we must see 'life as a gift', rather than treating ourselves as the sovereign grounds for our own existence. He contrasts this demand to social norms, which are often reciprocal in this way, and argues that while such norms are changeable, the ethical demand itself is absolute. L�gstrup therefore makes a fundamental contribution to our understanding of the nature of-and basis for-our obligations to each other. In this critical edition, L�gstrup's original text is accurately rendered into readable English and paired with an introduction which explains the main themes and wider context of the work.

Author : Gregor Malantschuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015057643945

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Kierkegaard's Concept of Existence by Gregor Malantschuk Pdf

"The objective of this book is to review the complex of issues in Soren Kierkegaard's concept of existence. It is evident that for Kierkegaard existence is always composed of three elements: namely, the subject, freedom, and the ethical. In the process of clarifying the relation between these three elements in the different stages of existence, the course of the development the individual must go through in order to become the single individual is described. "The study falls into four parts. The first section describes the levels in existence on which as person attempts by his own powers to actualize the ethical ideals; in this stage the center of gravity for a person's effort still lies within the bounds of immanence. The second section describes a person's ethical and religious growth as it develops in relation to a transcendent power, whose highest expression is Christ as the revelation of God. The third section discusses the issues in existence that Kierkegaard himself designated as the most difficult of all for human thought. The last section points to the highest existential position to which philosophy in the broader sense and Christianity respectively can take a person. Kierkegaard utilizes these positions as a standard for evaluating existence within immanence and for Christian existence.

Author : Sylvia Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107180581

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Kierkegaard and Religion by Sylvia Walsh Pdf

Focusing on the concepts of personality, character, and virtue, this work examines what it means to exist religiously for Kierkegaard.

Author : Rob Compaijen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319745527

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Kierkegaard, MacIntyre, Williams, and the Internal Point of View by Rob Compaijen Pdf

This book takes the debate about the (ir)rationality of the transition to ethical life in Kierkegaard’s thought in a significantly new direction. Connecting the field of Kierkegaard studies with the meta-ethical debate about practical reasons, and engaging with Alasdair MacIntyre’s and Bernard Williams’ thought, it explores the rationality of the choices for ethical life and Christian existence. Defending a so-called ‘internalist’ understanding of practical reasons, Compaijen argues that previous attempts to defend Kierkegaard against MacIntyre’s charge of irrationality have failed. He provides a thorough analysis of such fundamental topics as becoming oneself, the ideal of objectivity in ethics and religion, the importance of the imagination, the power and limits of philosophical argument, and the relation between grace and nature. This book will be of great interest to Kierkegaard scholars in philosophy and theology, and, more generally, to anyone fascinated by the rationality of the transition to ethical life and the choice to accept Christianity.

Author : Steven Shakespeare
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349266845

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Kierkegaard: The Self in Society by Steven Shakespeare Pdf

Kierkegaard: The Self in Society brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore Kierkegaard's continuing relevance to political and social issues. Kierkegaard is often portrayed as an out-and-out individualist with no concern for interpersonal relations. These essays not only refute this caricature, they bring out the complex nature of Kierkegaard's engagements with questions of selfhood and society. What Kierkegaard has to say about love, the church, politics and justice is shown to test the limits of what we take for granted in the modern (and postmodern) world.

Author : C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191534072

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Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love by C. Stephen Evans Pdf

C. Stephen Evans explains and defends Kierkegaard's account of moral obligations as rooted in God's commands, the fundamental command being `You shall love your neighbour as yourself'. The work will be of interest not only to those interested in Kierkegaard, but also to those interested in the relation between ethics and religion, especially questions about whether morality can or must have a religious foundation. As well as providing a comprehensive reading of Kierkegaard as an ethical thinker, Evans puts him into conversation with contemporary moral theorists. Kierkegaard's divine command theory is shown to be an account that safeguards human flourishing, as well as protecting the proper relations between religion and state in a pluralistic society.

Author : Patrick Sheil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351924016

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Kierkegaard and Levinas by Patrick Sheil Pdf

The Danish Christian existentialist Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) and the Jewish Lithuanian-born French interpreter of modern phenomenology Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) have enabled theology and philosophy to illuminate and confront one another in radical and important ways. This book addresses the theological and philosophical thought of both Kierkegaard and Levinas with a focus on the special form that exists in the grammar of many languages for cases of uncertainty, possibility, hypothesis and for expressions of hope: the subjunctive mood. As well as presenting arguments and observations about Kierkegaard and Levinas through an analysis of the subjunctive mood, Patrick Sheil offers an interesting and accessible way into the thought of these two major European philosophers and he explores a wide range of Kierkegaardian and Levinasian texts throughout.

Author : Mélissa Fox-Muraton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110707137

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Kierkegaard and Issues in Contemporary Ethics by Mélissa Fox-Muraton Pdf

While Kierkegaard’s philosophy focuses on concrete human existence, his thought has rarely been challenged regarding concrete and contemporary moral issues. This volume offers an overview of contemporary ethical issues from a Kierkegaardian perspective, deliberately taking him out of the sphere of Theology and Christian Ethics, and examining the ways in which his works can provide fruitful insight into questions which Kierkegaard certainly never himself envisaged, such as accepting refugees into our communities, understanding how we relate to social media, issues of identity with regard to bioengineering or transgender identity, or problems of interreligious dialogue. The contributions in this volume, by international scholars, seek to address both the challenges and insights of Kierkegaard’s existential ethics for our contemporary societies, and its relation to topics of current interest in the field of moral philosophy. The volume is organized into three major sections: the first focusing on the relation between ethics and religion, a topic of primary importance with regard to the development of religious foundationalism and the challenges of dealing with diverse belief systems within our communities; the second on our understandings of ourselves and our relations to others with regard to issues of media and community; and the third targeting more specifically questions of identity, and the ways in which the developments of modern science impact identity construction. This work offers new paths for critically engaging with the moral issues of our times from an existential perspective.

Author : George J. Stack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015001547671

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Kierkegaard's Existential Ethics by George J. Stack Pdf

Author : Roe Fremstedal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316513767

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Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion by Roe Fremstedal Pdf

A new perspective on Kierkegaard and his importance for historical and contemporary debates on self, ethics and religion.