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Passionate reason : making sense of Kierkegaard's Philosophical fragments / C. Stephen Evans.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Indiana series in the philosophy of religionPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585108684
  • 9780585108681
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Passionate reason.DDC classification:
  • 201 20
LOC classification:
  • BL51 .E858 1992eb
Other classification:
  • 08.24
  • 08.37
Online resources:
Contents:
On reading Kierkegaard and Johannes Climacus -- An ironical thought experiment -- Constructing an alternative to the Socratic view of "the truth" -- The poetry of the incarnation -- Thought, passion, and paradox -- The echo of offense -- Reason and the paradox -- Belief and the will -- Faith and history -- Christianity in the contemporary world.
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  • digitized 2011 committed to preserve
Summary: Johannes Climacus, Soren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author of Philosophical Fragments, "invents" a religion suspiciously resembling Christianity as an alternative to the assumption that humans possess the Truth within themselves. Through this literary device, Climacus raises in a fresh and audacious way age-old questions about the relation of Christian faith to human reason. Is the idea of a human incarnation of God logically coherent? Is religious faith the product of a voluntary choice? In a comprehensive discussion of one of Kierkegaard's most important books, C. Stephen Evans elucidates Kierkegaard's novel explanation that the tension between faith and reason must be understood as a consequence of the passionate character of reason itself. Passionate Reason situates Kierkegaard's philosophy in the context of postmodern religious thought, providing a contemporary reading of Fragments as a challenge to both the modern Enlightenment critique of reason and the postmodern abandonment of truth.
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Johannes Climacus, Soren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author of Philosophical Fragments, "invents" a religion suspiciously resembling Christianity as an alternative to the assumption that humans possess the Truth within themselves. Through this literary device, Climacus raises in a fresh and audacious way age-old questions about the relation of Christian faith to human reason. Is the idea of a human incarnation of God logically coherent? Is religious faith the product of a voluntary choice? In a comprehensive discussion of one of Kierkegaard's most important books, C. Stephen Evans elucidates Kierkegaard's novel explanation that the tension between faith and reason must be understood as a consequence of the passionate character of reason itself. Passionate Reason situates Kierkegaard's philosophy in the context of postmodern religious thought, providing a contemporary reading of Fragments as a challenge to both the modern Enlightenment critique of reason and the postmodern abandonment of truth.

On reading Kierkegaard and Johannes Climacus -- An ironical thought experiment -- Constructing an alternative to the Socratic view of "the truth" -- The poetry of the incarnation -- Thought, passion, and paradox -- The echo of offense -- Reason and the paradox -- Belief and the will -- Faith and history -- Christianity in the contemporary world.

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