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Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard Reponsible Philosopher Erraticus
("Abraham and Isaac" by William Blake, 1800)
Essays Philosophy 

Kierkegaard: The Responsible Philosopher?

September 19, 2019June 1, 2020 13 min read Finn Janning Christianity, Essential Reading, Soren Kierkegaard, Truth

Kierkegaard’s ambition is for the self to become itself—even if such a mode of existence will question the moral norms and values of society.

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haste makes waste
Ideas Philosophy 

Haste Makes Waste

August 7, 2019June 1, 2020 4 min read Finn Janning Death, Emotional Well-Being, Soren Kierkegaard

Haste becomes waste is intimately tied to the fact that many people have forgotten to inhabit their body, too eager to get somewhere else.

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Why Demoniac Forces Are The Best The Non-religious Can Hope For Erraticus Image by Arisa Chattasa
(Arisa Chattasa)
Essays Religion 

Why Demoniac Forces Are the Best We Can Hope for

March 3, 2019June 1, 2020 6 min read John Kaag Christianity, Soren Kierkegaard

This isn’t about the salvation of the demoniac but an observation about the hope we can find in the demons which show up in our mundane lives.

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Kierkegaard, Knausgaard, and the Kingdom of God Erraticus Image
Culture Ideas 

Kierkegaard, Knausgaard, and the ‘Kingdom of God’

December 9, 2018March 27, 2021 8 min read Jeffrey Howard Literature, Soren Kierkegaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard often uses religious language in his fiction—but as religion recedes, does he think literature can create ecstatic experience?

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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