Word: kierkegaard
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...itself. One pursues truth, but truth is for the purpose of life. I guess there is enough of an existentialist in me to feel that theology and commitment belong together. To regard theology as a closed system you stand off from-well, that's what Kierkegaard was talking about when he said 'To be a theologian is to have crucified Christ...
...horror-struck by words and letters. The Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega wrote five successive novels, omitting the letter a from the first, e from the second, i from the third, o from the fourth, u from the fifth. Franz Kafka was hopelessly drawn to the letter k. Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, would drop such remarks as, "I am as reflexive as a pronoun," or, "I feel like a letter printed backward in the line." The French poet Louis Aragon spoke for many bedeviled writers in his poem entitled "Suicide...
...hand, Soren Kierkegaard has led a return to the primitive essentials of Christianity by his re-definition of true faith as deep belief which not only is unjustified by the available evidence, but is irrelevant to all possible evidence or even runs headlong against it--belief which, is, in short, "absurd." The claim to have gotten "beyond" rational thought is a form of what Russell regards as the arch-vice, intellectual dishonesty. He would probably say that it is patently impossible to argue with someone who insists on Tertullian's Credo quia absurdum est. Such a case needs a psychiatrist...
...dithyrambic denial of mind may be salutary in an age that overrationalizes and overanalyzes existence. But if the concept of the beat generation can be reduced to its philosophical origins, it is simply U.S.-style existentialism. The Subterraneans, in its tawdry, slapdash way, testifies to one of Kierkegaard's precepts: "Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced...
...Tillich," he said to me. "Tillich. That's the stuff you want to read. Sophisticated. Twentieth-century. The cutting edge of knowledge. All the insights of White-head, Freud, Jung, Buber, Langer, Kierkegaard, Satre, et cetera. And more," he said looking me straight...