Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion

by Louis Pojman

Overview

The plan of this study is founded on a hypothesis that there is an overall argument in the Climacus writings (and reflected and supported in Kierkegaard's private papers and other writings): 1) There are two opposing ways to approach the truth: the objective and the subjective ways, 2) The objective way fails, 3) Hence the only appropriate way to the truth is the subjective way, 4) Christianity is the subjective way of life that meets all conditions for the highest subjectivity, 5) Hence Christianity is the appropriate way to reach the truth. The present work is sympathetically critical - always appreciative of Kierkegaard's genius but not always endorsing his arguments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573093422
Publisher:	International Scholars Publications
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.24(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

Louis Pojman is the author of The Logic Of Subjectivity.

Editorial Reviews

Challenges the view that Kierkegaard is a non-rational thinker and perhaps really a poet and not a philosopher at all. Argues that though he often uses indirect forms of communication and exhorts as much as agues, he does have a message to communicate that is founded on a belief in objective truth, and that he claims the goal of his work to be reaching what he calls the highest truth, which is objectively and eternally true, though not directly accessible by normal objective processes. Incorporates studies since the 1984 publication of the first edition, entitled . Double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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