All 48 Uses of
Kierkegaard
in
Sophie's World
- And in talking about him we will unavoidably touch on Kierkegaard's indignant clash with Hegelian philosophy.†
Chpt 23
- You also need to hear about Hegel and Kierkegaard.†
Chpt 24
- Kierkegaard Europe is on the road to bankruptcy Hilde looked at her watch.†
Chpt 27
- It is, for example, S0ren Kierkegaard's reaction to the idealism of the Romantics.†
Chpt 27
- But it also encompasses another Dane who lived at the same time as Kierkegaard, the famous fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen.†
Chpt 27
- He reacted against the idealistic philosophy of Spinoza just as Kierkegaard reacted against Hegel.†
Chpt 27
- We'll talk a bit about Kierkegaard before we stop for today.†
Chpt 27
- I think Kierkegaard must have taken a few hefty swigs from that one.†
Chpt 27
- This was just what made Kierkegaard so indignant.†
Chpt 27
- Therefore to Kierkegaard, Hegel and the Romantics were tarred with the same brush.†
Chpt 27
- S0ren Kierkegaard was born in 1813 and was subjected to a very severe upbringing by his father.†
Chpt 27
- To Kierkegaard, Christianity was both so overwhelming and so irrational that it had to be an either/or.†
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- But Kierkegaard saw how both the church and people in general had a noncommittal approach to religious questions.†
Chpt 27
- To Kierkegaard, religion and knowledge were like fire and water.†
Chpt 27
- Kierkegaard began his study of theology when he was seventeen, but he became increasingly absorbed in philosophical questions.†
Chpt 27
- Unlike the Romantics, Socrates was what Kierkegaard called an 'existential' thinker.†
Chpt 27
- After breaking off his engagement in 1841, Kierkegaard went to Berlin where he attended Schelling's lectures.†
Chpt 27
- Kierkegaard idicated that the sort of 'objective truths' that Hegelianism was concerned with were totally irrelevant to the personal life of the individual.†
Chpt 27
- According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life.†
Chpt 27
- Kierkegaard thought Hegel had forgotten that he was a man.†
Chpt 27
- And what, according to Kierkegaard, is a man?†
Chpt 27
- A broad description of human nature or human beings was totally without interest to Kierkegaard.†
Chpt 27
- There is a story about Buddha that illustrates what Kierkegaard meant.†
Chpt 27
- Both Buddha and Kierkegaard had a strong sense of only existing for a brief moment.†
Chpt 27
- Kierkegaard also said that truth is 'subjective.'†
Chpt 27
- Things we can know through reason, or knowledge, are according to Kierkegaard totally unimportant.†
Chpt 27
- Kierkegaard wrote: 'If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.†
Chpt 27
- So we have looked at what Kierkegaard meant by 'existential,' what he meant by 'subjective truth,' and what his concept of 'faith' was.†
Chpt 27
- I wonder what Kierkegaard would have said to Joanna's parents.†
Chpt 27
- That brings us to Kierkegaard's theory of what he called the three stages on life's way.†
Chpt 27
- Kierkegaard believed that there were three different forms of life.†
Chpt 27
- According to Kierkegaard, angst is almost positive.†
Chpt 27
- Kierkegaard's description of this 'category of decision' can be somewhat reminiscent of Socrates' view that all true insight comes from within.†
Chpt 27
- Kierkegaard, like Kant, drew attention first and foremost to human temperament.†
Chpt 27
- Kierkegaard never claimed that the ethical stage was satisfactory.†
Chpt 27
- And although it can be 'terrible to jump into the open arms of the living God,' as Kierkegaard put it, it is the only path to redemption.†
Chpt 27
- Yes, because to Kierkegaard, the religious stage was Christianity.†
Chpt 27
- Alberto began to talk: "When Kierkegaard went to Berlin in 1841, he might have sat next to Karl Marx at Schel-ling's lectures.†
Chpt 28
- Kierkegaard had written a master of arts thesis on Socrates.†
Chpt 28
- Because Kierkegaard became an existentialist and Marx became a materialist?†
Chpt 28
- Each in his own way, both Kierkegaard and Marx took Hegel's philosophy as their point of departure.†
Chpt 28
- She suddenly came to think of Kierkegaard, who had said that what characterized the crowd most was their idle chatter.†
Chpt 31
- Several of these existential philosophers, or existentialists, based their ideas not only on Kierkegaard, but on Hegel and Marx as well.†
Chpt 31
- A man who was influenced by both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche was the German existential philosopher Martin Heidegger.†
Chpt 31
- Both Kierkegaard and some of this century's existential philosophers were Christian.†
Chpt 31
- The key word in Sartre's philosophy, as in Kierkegaard's, is 'existence.'†
Chpt 31
- You may recall that angst, a sense of dread, was also characteristic of Kierkegaard's description of a person in an existential situation.†
Chpt 31
- As we saw, its roots reach far back in history through Kierkegaard and way back to Socrates.†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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(1)
(Kierkegaard as in: Søren Kierkegaard) Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, Kierkegaard can refer to other people with that name.