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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, Lutheran theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christianity, morality, ethics, psychology, love, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and parables. Much of his philosophical work d…
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culture · Danish philosopher and theologian (1813–1855) · philosopher · theologian · poet · writer · novelist · literary critic · also Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard, Victor Eremita, Climacus, Anti-Climacus, Sören Aaby Kierkegaard
Born 5 May 1813 · Died 11 November 1855 · Q6512
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2026· 5 entries
“Although this little book (which is called”
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“that single individual whom I with joy and gratitude call my reader”
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“s wrath and that none of his children would outlive him. He is said to have believed that his personal sins, perhaps indiscretions such as cursing the name of God in his youth or impregnating Ane out of wedlock, necessitated this punishment. Though five of his seven children died before he did, both Søren and his brother Peter outlived him. Peter, who was seven years older, later became bishop in Aalborg. Julia Watkin thought Michael”
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“s words in his writings. His father, on the other hand, was a devoutly Christian well-to-do wool merchant from Jutland. He was a”
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2022· 1 entry
cursus.edu: Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity
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2020· 1 entry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Coping with coronavirus anxiety: Four lessons from Søren Kierkegaard
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Philosopher of the Heart by Clare Carlisle review – the restless life of Søren Kierkegaard
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2018· 1 entry
Mental Floss: 10 Fascinating Facts About Søren Kierkegaard
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2013· 1 entry
CNET: Søren Kierkegaard celebrated with Google doodle
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2008· 1 entry
Christianity Today: Søren Kierkegaard
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1984· 1 entry
A six-part documentary, Sea of Faith, presented by Don Cupitt, featured an episode on Kierkegaard, while on Maundy Thursday in 2008, Kierkegaard was the subject of a discussion on the BBC Radio 4 programme presented by M
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1964· 1 entry
Life Magazine traced the history of existentialism from Heraclitus (500BC) and Parmenides over the argument over The Unchanging One as the real and the state of flux as the real
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1945· 1 entry
"Kierkegaard's life was in every sense that of a saint
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1935· 1 entry
Jaspers emphasized Kierkegaard's (and Nietzsche's) continuing importance for modern philosophy
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1931· 1 entry
(Karl Barth Prophet of a New Christianity) that Kierkegaard's use of the Latin phrase Finitum Non Capax Infiniti (the finite does not (or cannot) comprehend the infinite) summed up Barth's system
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1923· 1 entry
Though the publication received little attention
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1922· 1 entry
By a heterogeneous circle of Protestant theologians: Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann and Friedrich Gogarten
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1913· 2 entries
Saying: "Kierkegaard, the deep, melancholy, strenuous, utterly uncompromising Danish religionist, is a spiritual brother of the great Frenchman, Blaise Pascal, and of the striking English Tractarian, Hurrell Froude, who
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Titled Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of Inwardness, and David F
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1861· 1 entry
But it was Albert Bärthold who undertook the first substantial program of translating Kierkegaard into German, beginning in 1873
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1855· 11 entries
Died 1855-11-11.
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“Czy to zrobisz, czy nie zrobisz, będziesz i tego, i tego żałował.”
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The Danish National Church published his obituary
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“Bóg zna tylko indywiduum, a nie masę.”
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“By uciec od woli Boga, wynaleźliśmy naukę… Bronimy siebie, kryjąc się za foliałami.”
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“Opis: o kondycji europejskiej kultury.”
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“Aventurar-se causa ansiedade, mas deixar de arriscar-se é perder a si mesmo.”
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“At bedrage sig selv for kærlighed er det forfærdeligste, er et evigt tab, for hvilket der ingen erstatning er, hverken i tid eller evighed”
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“Jeśli Boga mogę pojąć obiektywnie, to nie wierzę, ale właśnie dlatego, że nie mogę go ująć obiektywnie, muszę wierzyć. I jeśli pragnę zachować wiarę, muszę stale pilnować, by utrzymać obiektywną niepewność, by w obiektywnej niepewności znaleźć się na głębinie wody i nadal wierzyć.”
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“Każdy pisarz religijny, głosiciel lub nauczyciel, który unika niebezpieczeństw i miejsc, gdzie się je spotyka i gdzie są warownie Zła, jest oszustem.”
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“Folk forstaae mig saa lidt, at de ikke engang forstaae mine Klager over, at de ikke forstaae mig.”
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1853· 1 entry
After his appointment to faculty at the University of Kristiana; as such, Svein Aage Christoffersen has designated Johnson to be the first Kierkegaardian in theology, fusing confessional, theological, and experiential ca
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1851· 1 entry
Kierkegaard wrote his Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays where he once more discussed sin, forgiveness, and authority using that same verse from 1 Peter 4:8 that he used twice in 1843 with his Three Upbuilding Di
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1850· 1 entry
Wrote, "those true Christians who in every generation live a life contemporaneous with that of Christ have nothing whatsoever to do with Christians of the preceding generation, but all the more with their contemporary
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1849· 1 entry
Wrote devotional discourses and Godly discourses
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1848· 5 entries
Kierkegaard wrote, "I had real Christian satisfaction in the thought that, if there were no other, there was definitely one man in Copenhagen whom every poor person could freely accost and converse with on the street; th
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“I had real Christian satisfaction in the thought that, if there were no other, there was definitely one man in Copenhagen whom every poor person could freely accost and converse with on the street; that, if there were no other, there was one man who, whatever the society he most commonly frequented, did not shun contact with the poor, but greeted every maidservant he was acquainted with, every manservant, every common laborer.”
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But not published until after his death by his brother Peter Christian Kierkegaard
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Published Christian Discourses under his own name and The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress under the pseudonym Inter et Inter
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"The whole generation and every individual in the generation is a participant in one's having faith
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1846· 1 entry
And here he tried to explain the intent of the first part of his authorship
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1844· 2 entries
'If a person can be assured of the grace of God without needing temporal evidence as a middleman or as the dispensation advantageous to him as interpreter, then it is indeed obvious to him that the grace of God is the mo
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“If a person can be assured of the grace of God without needing temporal evidence as a middleman or as the dispensation advantageous to him as interpreter, then it is indeed obvious to him that the grace of God is the most glorious of all.”
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1843· 1 entry
But here he discussed how an individual might come to know God
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1834· 1 entry
“My father died on Wednesday (the 8th) at 2:00 a.m. I so deeply desired that he might have lived a few years more... Right now I feel there is only one person (E. Boesen) with whom I can really talk about him. He was a”
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1813· 1 entry
Born 1813-05-05.
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