Hello, people. Just thought i'd ask about this here. Does Kierkegaard, in Inconclusive Unscientific Postscript (if that's the correct translation to english), ever help the poor reader by defining when faith can be considered as such as opposed to one's "faith" being but folly? How to differentiate between faith and things like obsessions and empty beliefs etc?
If it's relevant or not, i might need to point out that i'm not asking this as a student of philosophy or anything like that, but as someone whose outlook in life has much akin with that of Kierkegaard's.
Answers on a PM to my inbox, please (for very obvious reasons).
Thank you for your time and attention,
dei
regarding kierkegaard
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Last time I was on a philosophy forum, this nut was telling me that I don’t exist.Badlander wrote:
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@itnAklipse, I have no idea. What does Kierkegaard mean when he says faith exactly?
I haven’t paid much attention to Kierkegaard’s work yet. I got into existential philosophy around September time, when I found out that Jean-Paul Sartre and Nietzsche held a lot of the same beliefs as I was forming back then, when I renounced my faith and stopped believing in Gods and monsters, so I’ve mainly been reading their books.
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@Nick: Faith, as in subjectivity is truth and God...that one believes in his own vision of God.
Btw, Nietzsche is far from godless, and monsterless. Actually, he is much more "christian" (in a liberal kind of way, just remove christ from the equation) than...Spinoza haha...in a way that Sokrates was christian. Well that's how i understand Nietzsche anyway. Spinoza i don't understand at all. And it's terrible to talk about christianity when everyone confuses it with church and christ, that's why i'd never say i'm a christian.
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@Nick: Faith, as in subjectivity is truth and God...that one believes in his own vision of God.
Btw, Nietzsche is far from godless, and monsterless. Actually, he is much more "christian" (in a liberal kind of way, just remove christ from the equation) than...Spinoza haha...in a way that Sokrates was christian. Well that's how i understand Nietzsche anyway. Spinoza i don't understand at all. And it's terrible to talk about christianity when everyone confuses it with church and christ, that's why i'd never say i'm a christian.
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nick the stripper wrote: Last time I was on a philosophy forum, this nut was telling me that I don’t exist.
Sorry but I'm a sociologist and a political scientist, I use datas, quantitative and/or qualitative. Philosophy makes no sense to me.
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I gave up philosophy around the time it was posited that the only way to tell whether the cat was alive or dead was by opening the box. Given that the cat de jour weighed 23lb, slept 25 hours a day and could barely rouse himself from slumber to shuffle over to the bowl and pass out nose-deep in Whiskas, I figured this guy knew little about the species, and therefore I was going to give up on philosophy altogether. Although Nietsczhe had some great waistcoats.nick the stripper wrote:Last time I was on a philosophy forum, this nut was telling me that I don’t exist.
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EvilBastard wrote: Although Nietsczhe had some great waistcoats.
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My cat is named Schroedinger. Go Figure.EvilBastard wrote:I gave up philosophy around the time it was posited that the only way to tell whether the cat was alive or dead was by opening the box. Given that the cat de jour weighed 23lb, slept 25 hours a day and could barely rouse himself from slumber to shuffle over to the bowl and pass out nose-deep in Whiskas, I figured this guy knew little about the species, and therefore I was going to give up on philosophy altogether. Although Nietsczhe had some great waistcoats.nick the stripper wrote:Last time I was on a philosophy forum, this nut was telling me that I don’t exist.
Kierkegaard's central insight (with historical perspective) was that it is not impossible to maintain -faith- in an existential/postmodern worldhistorical perspective. (Postmodernism being Existentialism with either a random obsession with the second world war or a random obsession with popular culture; in either case lacking any additional insight into anything whatsoever)
Therefoe, Kierkegaard was kind of neat, if you like faith. (And I do, despite having none)
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You'd have a hard time proving that you do exist. For all I know, you could be a figment of my imaginationnick the stripper wrote:Last time I was on a philosophy forum, this nut was telling me that I don’t exist.
I don't know any Kierkegaard.
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Yeah but what's the point anyway ? Is knowing whether you do exist or not going to make you feel any better ?markfiend wrote:You'd have a hard time proving that you do exist. For all I know, you could be a figment of my imaginationnick the stripper wrote:Last time I was on a philosophy forum, this nut was telling me that I don’t exist.
Philosophy...
BTW Descartes kinda proved he existed. That's about all I know !
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timsinister wrote:Canon_Docre, could you imagine me a bit taller, with darker hair, and a winning smile instead of a gap-tooth grin?
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ok, his position is currently available in my cerebral matter...timsinister wrote:Canon_Docre, could you imagine me a bit taller, with darker hair, and a winning smile instead of a gap-tooth grin?
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