Kierkegaard's Analysis of Radical EvilA&C Black, 15 mar. 2006 - 176 pagini For thousands of years philosophers and theologians have grappled with the problem of evil. Traditionally, evil has been seen as a weakness of sorts: the evil person is either ignorant, or weak-willed. But in the most horrifying acts of evil, the perpetrators are resolute, deliberate, and well aware of the pain they are causing. Here David Roberts painstakingly details the matrix of issues that evolved into Kierkegaard's own solution. Kierkegaard's psychological understanding of evil is that it arises out of despair - a despair that can become so vehement and ferocious that it lashes out at existence itself. Roberts shows how the despairing self can become strengthened and intensified through a conscious and free choice against the Good. This type of radical evil is neither ignorant nor weak. |
Cuprins
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The Despair of the Aesthetic Stage of Existence | 58 |
Ethical SelfChoice | 74 |
Infinite Resignation | 102 |
The Essence of Radical Evil | 128 |
Bibliography | 153 |
Index | 157 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
absolute telos action actually aesthetic stage Anti-climacus arises basis becoming oneself believe categorical imperative choice choosing despair Climacus comes Concept of Anxiety concrete consciousness continually dark depths defiance desire determined E/O II earnestness emptiness enjoyment established order eternal happiness ethical existence ethical stage ethicist evasion exis existential feeling finite form of despair freedom fulfil gain George Connell ground guilt human existence ideal Immanuel Kant immediacy incentive inclosing reserve infinite resignation Judge Kant Karl Rahner Kierkegaard says light of reason lose means Meister Eckhart moral law move movement ness offense one's existence particular passion person possibility problem problem of evil radical evil rebellion relation relationship religious existence religious stage remains repentance Schelling seeks self-becoming self-consciousness self-knowledge self-sufficiency sense Sickness Unto Death simply single individual spirit spiritlessness stage of existence task teleology temporal tence thing tion Trans transparency unconditioned understanding universal weakness Willkür
Pasaje populare
Pagina 93 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Pagina 26 - Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis.
Pagina 55 - It is as if I had been going downhill while I imagined I was going up. And that is really what it was. I was going up in public opinion, but to the same extent life was ebbing away from me. And now it is all done and there is only death.
Pagina 51 - Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space?
Pagina 48 - ... right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
Pagina 5 - Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law', which he restates a few sentences later as.
Pagina 110 - That which has been exists no more ; it exists as little as that which has never been. But of everything that exists you must say, in the next moment, that it has been.
Pagina 48 - So it is too that in the eyes of the world it is dangerous to venture. And why? Because one may lose. But not to venture is shrewd. And yet, by not venturing, it is so dreadfully easy to lose that which it would be difficult to lose in even the most venturesome venture, and in any case never so easily, so completely as if it were nothing... one's self.
Pagina 26 - Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self...
Pagina 51 - Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations Martin Beck Matuštík Previzualizare limitată - 2008 |
Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations Martin Beck Matuštík Previzualizare limitată - 2008 |