/lit/ - Literature

>>14793978
I say this as an utter, complete, hopeless Kierkegaard fanboy with several thousands of pages of his writings on my bookshelf--Nietzsche is a far superior prose stylist. Honestly, Nietzsche's prose is on par with any writer's; he's really good. Big K is obviously the greatest philosopher, but I wouldn't even say his prose is one of his strengths.

>>14760610
But that's just your subjectivity talking.

>>14687333
Look through OP's post again and see how ego-centric it reads. A fear of being critical will lead you nowhere.

>>14594087
The proper existential relation towards the other. Recall that subjectivity is truth (per Kierkegaard) in the sense that the true or correct mode of existential relation is to relate with self as a subject (subjectively) rather than with self as an object (objectively). "Love" is the name of the proper subjective relation to another, a recognition that the other-for-myself is not only distinct from the other-in-itself but, inasmuch as it is subjective and thus in the truth, higher. Furthermore, one ought to recognize the paradoxical nature of the relation such that its deepening is one of pathos rather than dialectic, analogous to the difference between Religiousness A and paradoxical-religiousness. Indeed, the analogy between faith and love is, in the ultimate sense, not analogy at all but identity. Faith is the paradoxical passion that trusts that eternal happiness (the ultimate telos) can proceed from a finite historical event (the life of the god incarnate); love the paradoxical passion that shades of that same happiness can proceed from a relation with a finite human being. It goes without saying that only the Christian can love with the heart and the understanding also.

>>14201751
Faith is a passion. Subjectivity is truth, inwardness in the God-relation rather than abstracting from existence towards pure objective Being in the Hegelian dialectic. The esthete versus the ethicist. Teleological suspension of the ethical and the spiritual trial as the divine counterpart to infernal temptation. Suffering as simple misfortune in the esthetic sphere but existence itself in the religious. The erotic as mirror of the pistic.

>>14175560
dare I say, based

When I read the only one that matters

Truth is subjectivity.

>>14101293
Detachment of the self from the self is not desirable; proper subjectivity comes from one's own infinite interestedness in the self. The self's disinterest in itself is a disrelation, or the self's desiring to be other than its own self is despair in that the self as existing being wills to be the esthetic self.

Either/Or is one of the better starting points, Fear and Trembling is probably the most popular entry point nowadays.

Reading Concluding Unscientific Postscript right now.

Either/Or and the Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Hint: you don't want objectivity.

Fear and Trembling

>>13890269
He said the same stuff Kierkegaard did but with more poetry, less God, and he did it decades later.

>>13886268
>uncle found the tafsir

>There has been many a girl who became unhappy in love, but after all she became so, Sarah was so before she became so. It is hard not to find the man to whom one can surrender oneself devotedly, but it is unspeakably hard not to be able to surrender oneself.
In the context of Soren and Regine this cut me deep.

>>13853277
You know his name, anon

>>13857550
See >>13857555. Either you're going to keep going on in chains of meta-meta-garbage forever or you come to accept some original ground for your propositions. You need some axioms. This is faith.

>>13857373
Kierkegaard's "Philosophical Fragments."
>Written in the persona of Johannes Climacus
>Climacus is a wannabe intellectual--overthinks everything
>starts from Socrates' principle that all learning is really recollection from a past life
>determines that the individual in Socrates' picture already possesses the precondition for learning, and so the moment has no decisive significance in learning (for example, it does not matter when or how one learns a geometric fact since the principle is the same eternally)
>reasons that if the moment is to have decisive significance, it must be because the individual gains the condition for learning in that moment
>this can only be given by the god
>in the decisive moment the god gives awareness that one is untruth; this is the knowledge of sin
>one comes to truth; this is faith
>various discussion of whether the decisive moment is historically contingent on proximity to the god, concluding that the believer at second hand is in no way disadvantaged to the believer at first hand

>>13789872
Read The Sickness Unto Death. It may be that you're suffering from despair of the first kind, despair at not yet having a self. But from your post I think this unlikely; you are introspecting and reflecting upon the self, and this is sufficient grounds to conclude that you do possess a self. Thus, you are either despairing at not willing to be oneself or despairing willingly to be oneself. As the latter is more the domain of the demoniac than the denizen of 4channel, I may conclude that you despair at not willing to be yourself. Then there is something else you will to be but are not. Manifestly, since the self is a relation between the self and its own self, you exist in a state of disrelation between your self and itself. That is, the relation between the infinite in you and the finite in you is a disrelation. The class of despair to which you seem to pertain is precisely that in which the will is towards the infinite, not the finite. You seek Art, Truth, Beauty, etc., on some level; this is why you come to our imageboard with philosophical questions. You will little or not at all the concrete or the finite. This is the usual position of young men. The corrective attitude is the double movement (described in Fear and Trembling). The first movement is one of infinitude and thus appreciable by you and accessible to you, the infinite resignation. Relinquish first your hope; accept that, though you were promised an entire self, you have not this. The second movement is that which few can make, since it is a move of finitude; it can only be made by those who by reflective nature are capable of the infinite but who have not fallen into the lure of the infinite. After the infinite resignation, one must recapture the self as a finite object, as if by virtue of the absurd. To do so is to recognize the self as transparently grounded in the Power which constituted it, and to be in such a condition is to be free from despair, or disrelation between the self and itself.

baseret

*blocks you're path*

Quite a few. Johannes de Silentio, Anti-Climacus, Victor Eremita; I could go on.

Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments, then on to the Concluding Unscientific Postscript