/philosophy/ -Can an atheist gain anything by reading Kirky? Is there a secular interpretation of his work?

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Anonymous 05/31/16 (Tue) 04:57:34 03aa68 No.4155

Can an atheist gain anything by reading Kirky? Is there a secular interpretation of his work?

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Anonymous 05/31/16 (Tue) 07:44:43 03aa68 No.4156

Yeah, he was popular among people like Sartre after all.

I don't know myself specifically of any good secular works on him. You may find this of interest:

https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/1ecrsu/what_can_atheists_get_out_of_reading_kierkegaard/

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Anonymous 05/31/16 (Tue) 14:26:57 03aa68 No.4157

>>4156

Cool, thanks. Another 8channer put forth his own theory and he got me excited to read him in the end. Have you guys read him? What do you think his key ideas are?

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A.W. 05/31/16 (Tue) 20:48:29 03aa68 No.4159

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>>4157

Frankly the only thing I like about Kierkegaard is his writing style, and his concept of despair and selfhood. Accepting that despair is constitutive of the self helped me through tough times, it also makes me look back at that despair and actually feel positive about it.

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Anonymous 06/09/16 (Thu) 04:33:30 03aa68 No.4209

If you're into paradoxes and radical subjective individualism, there's a lot you can gain from reading K. Having read a little bit of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, you can view Kierkegaard's conception of individualism as an inversion of Hegel's socialized reason (insofar as his project describes the structure of being as rational).

He hated the public as he felt that it ultimately devalued the individual.

>>4157

I've read Two Ages and Fear and Trembling for a 19th Century Philosophy class. I'm getting to Either/Or this summer.

His key ideas deal with paradox, irony and the tension between faith and reason. He looked up to Socrates and Jesus Christ (JC for obvious reason) as he believed both were authentic ironists. Socrates admits he knows nothing while being the wisest man of Athens. God, an omnipotent and transcendent being, incarnates as a finite man, Jesus Christ, voluntarily sacrificing Himself to save humanity.

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Anonymous 06/16/16 (Thu) 11:28:00 03aa68 No.4223

>>4155

He's a shitty Nietzsche basically.

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Anonymous 06/28/16 (Tue) 20:32:02 03aa68 No.4246

>>4223

>Existentialist

>Kierkegaard is just like Nietzsche but worse

>Nietzsche is an existentialist not a nihilist meme

You cannot understand what you are reading.

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