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Provocations (Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard) - Charles E. Moore, 448 Pages
- Søren Kierkegaard has been accused of being one of the most frustrating authors to read. He has also been praised as one of the most rewarding. Frustrating, because his style is so dense, his thought so complex, and his words so harsh. Rewarding, because embedded within his writings and journals are metaphors and truths so deep and vivid that they can overwhelm you with an almost blinding clarity. Kierkegaard is not one to be read lightly, lest you get burned. The purpose of this collection is twofold. The first is to make Kierkegaard accessible. Even for the brightest, Kierkegaard is tough going. Walter Lowrie, Kierkegaard’s most devoted biographer, writes: “Kierkegaard exacts of his reader a very great effort.
He declines to make things easy for him by presenting a ‘conclusion,’ and he obliges him, therefore, to approach the goal by the same difficult path he himself has trod.” Even Kierkegaard’s fellow Danes found him difficult. This is unfortunate. Contained within his writings are some of the richest, most illuminating passages on faith and commitment ever penned. To help unearth some of these treasures, I have taken the liberty to abridge lengthy pieces, paraphrase complex passages, and tighten and simplify convoluted constructions. Secondly, this collection is meant to present in as concise a way as possible the “heart” of Kierkegaard. By heart I mean first those pieces that are concerned with the core themes of his pro lific output, second, those that exemplify the essence of his thought, and last but not least, his passion.
Kierkegaard’s Central Passion Kierkegaard wrote industriously and rapidly, and under a variety of pen-names, presenting various esthetic, ethical, and religious viewpoints on life. His writings display such a wide range of genre and style, and his thought covers such a variety of subjects that even he himself felt compelled to write a book to explain his agenda. Despite this, Kierkegaard was single mindedly driven. He writes in his Journal: “The category for my undertaking is: to make people aware of what is essentially Christian.” Two things are noteworthy. First, Kierkegaard aims to make us aware. “I have worked for a restlessness oriented toward inward deepening.” “My whole life is an epigram calculated to make people aware.” In short, Kierkegaard’s task was not the introduction of new ideas, a theology or philosophy of life. Rather, he said “My task is in the service of truth; and its essential form is obedience.” Kierkegaard was fundamentally existential: “to keep people awake, in order that religion may not again become an indolent habit…” His aim was to provoke the individual so as to become an individual in the truth. The last thing Kierkegaard wanted to do was to leave his reader the same – intellectually enlightened yet inwardly unchanged. Early in his life, Kierkegaard made the discovery that one must “find a truth which is true for me – the idea for which I can live and die.” Part of the human predicament was that we are all interested in far too many things and thus are not decidedly committed to any one thing. As he writes in his Journal:
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: Internet |
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Tác giả
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: Charles E. Moore |
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Kiểu tập tin
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: PDF |
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: 1.3MB |
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: Thanh Ngoc |
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Cập nhật
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: 23.11.2011 |
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Số lượt xem
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: 288 |
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: 5 |
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