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On the Proposal for a Soren Kierkegaard Reading Group
By: StircrazyReality Date: July 15, 2017, 1:31 am
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A few people have shown in interest in reading more of Soren
Kierkegaard's work.
I have recently been reading some of the commentaries on SK's
major works here:
HTML http://sorenkierkegaard.org/
My exploration of Soren Kierkegaard as a whole is guided by
interest in the phenomenon of faith, and in paradox, as revealed
in SK's work. I think it is relevant to mention that in part due
to Soren Kierkegaard I have been inspired to read parts of
Genesis. What is the phenomenon of faith?
I am thinking that I will read The Concept of Anxiety to begin
with, as it is a text that is referenced by Heidegger in a
footnote on page H190 of Being and Time; The phenomenon of
anxiety is taken up by Heidegger as making 'manifest in Dasein
its Being towards its own most potentiality-for-Being'. The
Concept of Anxiety is also considered a companion piece to
Sickness Unto Death, which I read as part of the Existentialism
course.
What are other people interested in reading?
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Re: On the Proposal for a Soren Kierkegaard Reading Group
By: StircrazyReality Date: July 15, 2017, 1:49 am
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I have various questions that are motivating my study.
What is the phenomenon of faith, understood both individually,
and as something manifest in culture and history? (I do not not
take the new Atheist view that faith is at worst a mistake, or
best a outdated survival mechanism, it is more complex than a
simple thing to be dismissed. However I do sympathise with
Miguel de Unamuno's view of faith as irrational but necessary as
a bulwark against the winds of chaos. I am also partial to 'Maps
of Meaning' (Jordan Peterson), a pragmatist (although I must
confess a perhaps too basic understanding of pragmatism) view
that religions provide 'resonance patterns', advocating acts
that are good for me now, my family now, my society now, the
environment now... me tomorrow, my family tomorrow... me next
year, my family next year.... etc. Such a resonance patterns
view of religions accepts the view that there is no absolute,
there is simply what works. Against this, I do not sympathise
with the religious universalists view that all religion's are
fundamentally the same at core (although this was a stage of my
development), there are fundamental incompatibilities, that can
not be explained away by relativism. This is getting off on a
tangent, with questions such as what is the relationship between
faith and religion, however all I intended to do was provide a
picture of some of the questions motivating my study.
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Re: On the Proposal for a Soren Kierkegaard Reading Group
By: RD-C Date: July 29, 2017, 12:34 am
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Hey SReality,
I'm interested in joining this proposed Kierkegaard reading
group!
For me, I feel like reading more of his works would help me
explore the juxtaposition between him and Nietzsche. They are,
in a general sense, two very very important
'proto-existentialists', yet their endeavors are starkly
different.
More so, I also want to explore his ideas on the phenomenon of
faith, which upon first impression is a bit different to how
contemporary Christian apologetics approaches faith with its
emphasis on rationalism - i.e. the methodology of applying
various criterion in the Gospel accounts and first century
non-biblical accounts, literary and source criticism on Paul's
epistles, and ultimately abductive inference towards the
historicity of the Resurrection.
I want to suggest starting from 'square-one' and reading
Kierkegaard's doctoral thesis "On the Concept of Irony With
Continual Reference to Socrates". It seems to deal with irony in
the Greeks and an analysis of 19th century philosophers, which
may shed light on Kierkegaard's later writing style and
inspirations.
Let me know what you think.
Also, what time in the week would be best for you for this
reading group?
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Re: On the Proposal for a Soren Kierkegaard Reading Group
By: StircrazyReality Date: July 29, 2017, 9:01 pm
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Hey RD-C,
It seems it will be the two of us who will be the core of the
Soren Kierkegaard Reading Group, so why don't we make a time to
meet in Kierkegaard section of Fisher Library.
Perhaps we can start a first reading of 'On the Concept of
Irony', or otherwise simply assess the resources available to
us.
I am not sure how to balance making this organising public, with
the convience of personally discussing a time to meet. Let's
find a time to have a preliminary meeting next week.
Post in the doodle scedule so that we an try and find a time.
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Re: On the Proposal for a Soren Kierkegaard Reading Group
By: StircrazyReality Date: August 31, 2017, 4:05 am
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Here is a very good translation of Sickness Unto Death:
HTML http://studenthjelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sickness-Unto-Death.pdf
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