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- For Kierkegaard, the present age is a reflective age—one that values objectivity and thought over action, lip-service to ideals rather than action, discussion over action, publicity and advertising over reality, and fantasy over the real world.
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Reflection in Kierkegaard is related to 'abstraction' and 'objectivity'. 'Abstraction' is when something exists as an idea instead of as a real thing, and 'objectivity' is when a person thinks they can deal with something as though it was an idea and not a real thing.
- Warning: Not a Kierkegaard expert. Here's a commentary of the passage you quoted: If Kierkegaard is correct, rather than being ourselves, we tend...
- "subjected by reflection" I think means that the state of belonging in all things to an abstraction is caused by reflection (theoretical thinking...
- 'Reflection' in Kierkegaard is opposed to 'immediacy'. It's the state in which you form an idea about something and deal with the idea, as opposed...
- In that passage Kierkegaard means that today the individual subsumes himself under a universal: "an abstraction to which he is subjected by reflect...
May 22, 2023 · While Kierkegaard does not explicitly explore faith, hope and love as the three theological virtues, all three notions play important roles in his thought, and can be used to amplify his view of the religious life. 3.3.1 Faith. Faith is a major theme across Kierkegaard’s authorship.
Kierkegaard’s insight is that, by attempting to abstract away our subjectivity, philosophy loses its power to move or be relevant for us. Scientific explanations of reality, then, are all well and good; but what about our actual lived experiences?
It was from this personal vantage point that meaning of life questions bubbled up, questions that are the earmark of existential reflection. Born in 1813 in Copenhagen, Kierkegaard wrote his classic works pseudonymously.
cinative, impersonal cognition, but rather what Kierkegaard calls "subjective reflection." "The subjective reflection turns its atten-tion inwardly to the subject, and desires in this intensification to realize [i.e., actualize] the truth."10 (3) It is important to recognize that Kierkegaard does not
Kierkegaard says truth resides within God, and truth is given to man only in God’s self-disclosure. As a result of that, no amount of philosophical reflection is ever going to give you the content of Christian truth. Philosophic reflection is one thing, Christianity is something altogether different. Kierkegaard makes these points
It is a distancing device, which folds immediate experience back on itself to create a space of self-reflection. In Socrates it is incarnated as “infinite negativity” – a force that undermines all received opinion to leave Socrates’ interlocutors bewildered – and responsible for their own thoughts and values.
