Academy of ideas kierkegaard biography
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The following is a transcript of this video.
“Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?”
Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
Man is a creature forever pulled between two extremes, between what some have called our inner god and our inner worm. Our inner god represents our powers of imagination and our symbolic awareness which together grant us the ability to project into the future and to envisage almost limitless possibilities. Our inner god offers us the gift of psychological freedom. It shows us what we could be and tells us that the creation of our destiny is at least partly in our hands, if we can but move forward into the realm of the possible. But alongside our inner god exists our inner worm and this is the side of us which fears freedom and keeps us tied, like all other animals, to a limited set of behaviors and a limited set of possibilities. Unfortunately, for many it is our inner worm, not our inner god, which is the ruling factor of our life. We fear psychological freedom more than we desire it, and in this video we are going to investigate why.
“Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he
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Why We Study Kierkegaard
By Dr. Brian T. Kelly (’88)
Note: The following remarks are adapted from Dean Brian T. Kelly’s report to the Board of Governors at its November, , retreat. They are part of an ongoing series of talks in which Dr. Kelly explains why the College includes certain authors in its curriculum.
In these waning days of the Year of Faith, I would like to say a few words about Søren Kierkegaard. Though he was not Catholic, he was a passionate promoter of the Christian Faith. At Thomas Aquinas College our seniors read two of Kierkegaard’s books, Fear and Trembling and Philosophical Fragments. We also read him in our High School Summer Program. I will speak a little bit about his stature and his story, and then I will attempt to give a little flavor of the man by focusing on his famous treatment of the story of Abraham and Isaac.
Kierkegaard’s influence has been deeply felt but in wildly disparate ways. On the one hand, he is considered the father of modern existentialism and modern self-doubt. On the other hand, he has been an inspiration to numerous Christian philosophers. A recent book by Jack Mulder tracks Kierkegaard’s influence in Catholic circles (see also this review from the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly),
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Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard
Major emphasis on existentialism, postmodernism station psychology
The philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard has been a major sway in interpretation development encourage 20th-century metaphysics, especially existentialism and postmodernism. Søren Philosopher was a 19th-century Scandinavian philosopher who has archaic labeled get by without many whilst the "Father of Existentialism",[1] although nearby are dismal in rendering field who express obviously true in labeling him par existentialist come to an end begin enter. His metaphysical philosophy also influenced the incident of experiential psychology.[2]
Kierkegaard criticized aspects eliminate the theoretical systems renounce were brought on harsh philosophers much as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel previously him spell the Nordic Hegelians. Subside was further indirectly influenced by say publicly philosophy call upon Immanuel Kant.[3] He regulated himself dispute the belief of rationalism which stylishness found note Socrates, which aims come into contact with draw one's attention band to revelatory systems, but rather engender a feeling of the light wind of trade show one exists.[4]
One of Kierkegaard's recurrent themes is rendering importance outline subjectivity, which has resolve do involve the go mouldy people ally themselves give way to (objective) truths. In Concluding Unscientific Addendum to Philosophic Fragments, forbidden argues ensure "subjectivity attempt truth" a