Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion

by Pojman, Louis

• ISBN13: 9781573093422
• ISBN10: 1573093424
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: International Scholars Publications

Summary

The plan of this study is founded on a hypothesis that there is an overall argument in the Climacus writings (and reflected and supported in Kierkegaard's private papers and other writings): 1) There are two opposing ways to approach the truth: the objective and the subjective ways, 2) The objective way fails, 3) Hence the only appropriate way to the truth is the subjective way, 4) Christianity is the subjective way of life that meets all conditions for the highest subjectivity, 5) Hence Christianity is the appropriate way to reach the truth. The present work is sympathetically critical - always appreciative of Kierkegaard's genius but not always endorsing his arguments.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Bibliographical Note and Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction and Orientation	p. 1
Kierkegaard's Life
The Christian Purpose of Kierkegaard's Authorship
Christianity and Philosophy in Kierkegaard's Early Papers
Kierkegaard's Phenomenology of the Stages of Existence	p. 29
Kierkegaard's Conception of Human Existence
The Stages of Existence
The Aesthetic Stage
The Ethical Stage
Religiousness A
Religiousness B
Attack on Objectivity	p. 65
Kierkegaard as Philosopher
A Critique of Rationality
The Failure of Objectivity: An Analysis of Book 1 of Concluding Unscientific Postscript	p. 89
Faith and History
An Evaluation of Kierkegaard's Critique of Objectivity
Kierkegaard's Critique of Objectifying the Church
A Critique of the Speculative Point of View
Subjectivity and Epistemology	p. 115
The Domain of Subjectivity
Kierkegaard's Epistemology
Subjectivity and Truth
Faith and the Stages of Existence	p. 145
'Faith' in the Philosophical Fragments	p. 161
The Climacus Writings
'Faith' in the Philosophical Fragments
A Critique of Kierkegaard's Volitionalism
'Faith' in Concluding Unscientific Postscript and Later Papers	p. 209
'Faith' in Concluding Unscientific Postscript
'Faith' and 'Hope' in Kierkegaard's Later Papers
A Justification of Christian Faith	p. 227
Kierkegaard on Faith and Freedom	p. 247
An Exposition of David Wisdo's Critique
A Defense of My Position
Faith and the Stages of Existence
The Possibility of a Christian Dialectical Philosophy
Kierkegaard's Idea of Freedom
Kierkegaard and Volitionalism
Kierkegaard and Explanation
Replies to Objections on Epistemology and Logic	p. 273
On the Nature of Kierkegaard's Epistemology: Reply to Steven M. Emmanuel
Does Kierkegaard Believe the Idea of the Incarnation Contains a Formal Contradiction? A Response to Stephen Evans
Conclusion	p. 289
Kierkegaard's Theory of Indirect Communication	p. 295
Selected Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 315
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