| Description |
1 online resource (x, 271 pages) |
| Series |
Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Kierkegaard's Ontology -- Chapter I: Methodological Foundations -- Chapter II: The Dialectical Self -- Chapter III: The Dialectical Development Of Spirit -- Part Two: The Task of Existing -- Introduction -- Chapter IV: The Ethical Character Of -- Chapter V: The Religion of Hidden Inwardness -- Chapter VI: The Religion of Faith -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In this study John W. Elrod demonstrates that Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings have an ontological foundation that unites the disparate elements of these books. The descriptions of the different stages of human development are not fully understandable, the author argues, without an awareness of the role played by this ontology in Kierkegaard's analysis of human existence. Kierkegaard contends that the self is a synthesis of finitude and infinitude, body and soul, reality and ideality, necessity and possibility, and time and eternity. Each of these syntheses reveals a particular and unique |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-268) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
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| SUBJECT |
Kierkegaard, Soren, 1813-1855
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 fast |
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Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855 gnd |
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Kierkegaard, Søren. swd |
| Subject |
Ontology.
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ontologies (vocabularies)
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ontology (metaphysics)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Ontology
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Existenzphilosophie
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Ontologie
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Existentie.
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Filosofische antropologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400868216 |
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1400868211 |
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