The Toils of Understanding: An Essay on The Present Age"The central theme is that understanding is essential if the individual and society are to be saved. On the way to various conclusions, The Toils of Understanding argues with a host of interpreters of Kierkegaard."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... one's ability to act , it adds to one's sorrows , and it is not easy to escape from its clutches . One can get hooked on it . " But one thing is sure , reflection , like knowledge , increases sorrow and beyond a doubt there is no task ...
... one's ability to act , it adds to one's sorrows , and it is not easy to escape from its clutches . One can get hooked on it . " But one thing is sure , reflection , like knowledge , increases sorrow and beyond a doubt there is no task ...
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... one's physical and psychological charac- teristics ; but one's self is not exhausted by those characteristics because a human being is essentially marked by moral characteristics as well . It follows that a moral theory is imperative in ...
... one's physical and psychological charac- teristics ; but one's self is not exhausted by those characteristics because a human being is essentially marked by moral characteristics as well . It follows that a moral theory is imperative in ...
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... one's identity is closely linked to one's life plan , then the worth of one's life plan is one's crucial characteristic , and if the worth of one's life plan is decided by the moral theory , then a moral theory is imperative for determining ...
... one's identity is closely linked to one's life plan , then the worth of one's life plan is one's crucial characteristic , and if the worth of one's life plan is decided by the moral theory , then a moral theory is imperative for determining ...
Contents
The Destruction of Man | 23 |
Vox Populi Vox Dei | 45 |
Exit to Inwardness | 75 |
Copyright | |
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Abraham aesthete Alastair Hannay Apostle argue argument authority become believe Book on Adler Call Me Ishmael-Call chap choice choose Christian claim cleverness courage decision deed Divine Comedy Doctor Faustus dukkha Either/Or enthusiasm envy escape essentially ethical everything evil Faustus's Fear and Trembling Fragment gaard genius grammar Hannay Hong human individual essences inwardness Ishmael-Call Everyone Ishmael Kierke Kierkegaard Kierkegaard says Kierkegaardian Kirmmse knowledge leap of faith Letter concerning Toleration live Marcus Aurelius Mephistopheles moral theory node notion object offers one's oneself outstanding individual particular person philosophical political Polybius possible Present Age principle prison problems process of leveling prophet question reason reflection religion religious repent ressentiment Robert role Sarah Wylcott saved scale of understanding self-knowledge significant social society Socrates soul stage task things tion true truth ultimate University Press Utopia Virtue Ethics Walter Lowrie York