Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion - Purity Or Despair

A new perspective on Kierkegaard and his importance for historical and contemporary debates on self, ethics and religion.

Sommario

Introduction; Part I. Self, Despair and Wholeheartedness: 1. Selfhood and anthropology; 2. Why be moral? The critique of amoralism; 3. Moral inescapability: Moral agency and meta-ethics; Part II. Morality, Prudence and Religion: 4. The critique of eudaimonism: Virtue ethics, kantianism and beyond; 5. Non-eudaimonistic ethics and religion: Happiness and salvation; 6. The 'Teleological suspension of the ethical' and Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac; 7. Moralized religion: The identity of the good and the divine; Part III. 'Subjectivity, Inwardness, is Truth': 8. 'Hidden inwardness' and humor: Kantian ethics and religion; 9. Subjective truth: 'Kierkegaard's most notorious¿claim'; Part IV. Faith and Reason: 10. A leap of faith? The use of lessing, Jacobi and Kant; 11. Faith neither absurd nor irrational: The neglected reply to Eiríksson; 12. Faith beyond reason: Supra-rationalism and anti-rationalism; 13. The ethics of belief: Fideism and pragmatism; Conclusion; References; Index.

Info autore

Roe Fremstedal is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NTNU, Trondheim. He is the author of Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good (2014), and has published extensively on German philosophy, existentialism, ethics, and religion.

Riassunto

Kierkegaard's thought is more relevant than ever to contemporary debates about the self, truth, ethics, and religion. This study explains how to make sense of controversial ideas in Kierkegaard's work, such as wholeheartedness, subjective truth, 'the leap' into faith and 'the teleological suspension of the ethical'.

Prefazione

A new perspective on Kierkegaard and his importance for historical and contemporary debates on self, ethics and religion.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Roe Fremstedal, Roe (Norwegian University of Science a Fremstedal, Fremstedal Roe
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009074735
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0907473-5
• Pagine: 294
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, History of Religion, Philosophy of religion, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, General studies and General knowledge, General studies