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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Søren Kierkegaard"”.
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A fractured dialectic: Søren Kierkegaard between idealism and materialism
… of the philosophical and religious project of Søren Kierkegaard by offering a systematic reading of his work against the backdrop of 19th century German idealism. Along with an emphasis on a systematic interpretation of a thinker usually considered to be wholly anti-systematic in aim and …
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Suffering and the Christian life : the asceticism of Søren Kierkegaard.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) has been called many things: a Lutheran, a Pietist, a mystic, a poet, and the first existentialist philosopher. While these labels all have some degree of truth, I argue that the best name for Kierkegaard is that of a Christian ascetic. Kierkegaard was committed to a …
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La razón y la paradoja de Søren Kierkegaard, una relación amorosa
Fil: Rufiner, María Sol. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina
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A critical comparison of William James and Søren Kierkegaard on religious belief
… belief proposed by<br/>William James and Søren Kierkegaard. Both James and Kierkegaard greatly emphasize<br/>the subjective aspects of religious belief. In view of this fact, surprisingly little<br/>comparative work has been done in this area. I contribute to this literature in two …
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Ethical decision making in the National Health Service: A theoretical analysis of clinical negligence with reference to the existential writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
… philosophy as outlined by Sartre, Levinas, and Kierkegaard cares about the lived experiences of individuals. Such a view is in contradistinction to other philosophical views which have a tendency to reduce human experience, or to lose the individual in abstraction. <br/><br/>This thesis has a …
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The False Self and True Self: A Christian Perspective
… thinkers: Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther, Søren Kierkegaard, and Thomas Merton. Chapter 4 examines answers from two modern psychologists, D.W. Winnicott and Susan Harter. The fifth chapter concludes with a synthesis of these answers, in order to propose a Christian perspective on the false …
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Hearing Existenzspeak: An Existential Response to Millennial Angst
… in the past by thinkers including Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Karl Jaspers--I explore this idea so as to illuminate some new ways of thinking about intrapersonal, interpersonal, public, and mythic forms of communication. It is my hope that, ultimately, hearing our own …
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Reading <i>Waiting for Godot</i> through the lens of Christian existentialism
… may be saying about the existential dilemma. Søren Kierkegaard, often called the Father of Existentialism, authored multiple works that influenced modern existentialist writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Kierkegaard’s writings, however, were Christian in nature rather than …
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Exploring the Role of the Self in the Islamic-Western Human Rights Discourse: A Comparative Examination of Foundational Texts of Key Scholars from the Shī‘ī-Muslim and Western Philosophical Tradition - ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib, Zayn al-‘Ābidīn, Søren Kierkegaard and Immanuel Kant
… Upbuilding Discourses by the Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard and finally, The Metaphysics of Morals by the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant.<br/>By engaging in a comparative analysis of these texts, I aim to construct a role for the self that is appropriate for the human rights discourse …
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Self Creation and Social Critique: Kierkegaard, Arendt, and Castoriadis on Thinking and Discourse
… Cornelius Castoriadis, Hannah Arendt, and Søren Kierkegaard. I argue that when taken in concert, these three figures present a cogent account of how people ought to cultivate an ethos of critique or resistance, while nonetheless acknowledging that political participation is itself a mode of …
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The Leap : Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective
… philosophical and rhetorical perspective are Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche and Plato, and, speaking more broadly, existentialism. It will also situate the novel within its sphere of literary influence. Here, key writers are Italo Calvino and, again, Kierkegaard, who will be placed …
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Michael Wyschogrod and Jewish Existentialism
… and tropes drawn especially from the work of Søren Kierkegaard, but also from that of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The study examines four major topics in Wyschogrod’s philosophy of Judaism: his indictment of the inauthenticity Modern Orthodox community in the United States; his …
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Kierkegaard And Byron: Disability, Irony, And The Undead
… references to Lord Byron in the corpus of Søren Kierkegaard, chapter 1, "Kierkegaard and Byron," provides a historical backdrop by surveying the influence of Byron and Byronism on the literary circles of Golden Age Copenhagen. Chapter 2, "Disability," theorizes that Kierkegaard later …
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Angústia existencial em contos brasileiros no século XXI : Munduruku, Polesso e Evaristo
… da filosofia existencial, representada por Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger e Jean-Paul Sartre, uma vez que tal campo de pensamento é tido recorrentemente como referência sobre o assunto; assim, através dessa delimitação, serão expostas relações que os filósofos estabelecem entre o …
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A study of Kierkegaard as a missionary and the possible applications in Japan
… four published works and unpublished works of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) from the perspective of Kierkegaard as a missionary and applies the Kierkegaardian mission to the Japanese context. I demonstrate that the interpretation that Kierkegaard was a missionary is a plausible reading of the …
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The Phenomenology of Moral Agency in the Ethics of K. E. Logstrup
… such as Martin Heidegger, Martin Luther and Søren Kierkegaard had on Løgstrup’s way of thinking about ethics. Thus, in this thesis my aim is to contribute both to Løgstrup scholarship and to central on-going debates in moral philosophy and the philosophy of action.
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The Fullness of Time: Christological Interventions into Scientific Modernity
… temporal recalibrations through a reading of Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth, highlighting the ways that both figures rejected an approach to time that is not coincidentally intertwined with a racialized account of history, and with the co-opting of Christianity by the modern Western state. …
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The First Cut; the locus of decision at the limits of subjectivity
… constitute a ‘locus’ of decision. The writing of Søren Kierkegaard is the main focus of discussion. Giorgio Agamben, Michel Henry and Jacques Derrida also provide important contributions. Although for Kierkegaard ‘all decisiveness is rooted in subjectivity’, subjective agency takes the form of an …
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The Theological Edifice of Modern Experiential Protestantism: Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Palmer’s Reconstruction of nineteenth Century Pietism
… contributions of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Søren Kierkegaard, and Phoebe Palmer. While an emphasis on experiencing God exists in all forms of Christianity, including Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and the various forms of Protestantism, the expression and development of experiential …
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'Lucky Poet' and the bounds of possibility: autobiography and referentiality in Hugh MacDiarmid's 'Poetic World'
… a detailed analysis of MacDiarmid’s reference to Søren Kierkegaard and Lev Shestov. It shows how he developed, through reference to Shestov’s In Job’s Balances and Walter Lowrie’s biography of Kierkegaard, a concept of the suffering and self-sacrifice of the artist, and a related belief in the …
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