Yep, more context was needed. Here is a quote that places the Moment in perspective. In defining the Moment as he is doing, he is separating it from...
Dear Jim Rovira and others, Jim, it seems that your ideas have become the subject of the discussion here perhaps more right now than SK’s ideas. Like you I...
(1044) >I gave specific reasons for thinking he would have been overstating his case relative to his other works, and posted something pretty long about...
"The central nerve of my work as an author really lies in the fact that I was essentially religious when I wrote *Either/Or*. -The Journals of Kierkegaard, ed....
I shall use the following quote to make the case that the central hub around which all of SK's thoughts spin is in the moment "man becomes conscious of the new...
For Kierkegaard (for many), it is no ruse to accept as given the Being of the Eternal, and no anti-theology to admit that this reality of God - God's actuality...
Dear Ben, Thank you for your detailed response to my message #919. I find your remarks very helpful in my quest to understand Kierkegaard's thought. I am sorry...
Ben/Een, I have missed our jousts. I come out bruised, but never bent. I have added a few comments in brackets. [Of course, I could be wrong!] = = == === =====...
Hi Willy, A while ago (17th July, in message #766) I posed this challenge to you: "On the issue of where the paradox (or paradoxes) are primarily to be...
... But, ... movie ... not ... Here's looking at you, Rick, The 'an' is a negation. Unamuno translated it as 'angustia', 'no taste'. It's the subjective...
Yo, Rick, you have asked a question that needs answering, but it is the wrong question. Well, I will, at least, try to make the point that it is by bending...
One of the links is erroneous to be replaced by: http://www.hidepark21.org/Collection/KDR/00-ConditionsKDR.htm Sorry for that, but you know, I am just a fool...
Dear all but one, A very brief to let those of you who had noticed the idiocy which consisting in interrupting a reasoning at its threshold and who would...
Hi Willy, I've been thinking for a while how best to respond to your two responses to my "What Is Essential" post. I'll limit my response to two of your...
Cards on table... Dear Benjamin, What a dialectic pleasure to be reading you again. We have had missed you, and our edification has suffered, as you did not...
Dear Kierkegaardians, After a good night's sleep, I happened to read again my production. As I did I did not fail to compare my translation to the Hannay's...
Mr. Mederic, idiot incarnate, the imitation of Willy, you have learned to play the game well. As the title of this thread is rationality, let me be more...
Dear Jim, I am coming back to your original message concerning sin. Your challenge echoed in my ears some discussion I had with some old friends of mine who ...
Dear All, and why not another 'dear all' contribution when the pieces that lie strewn our rug, like apples escaped from their bushel, all but beg for...
Kierkegaardians, I have recently been distracted from Kierkegaard by new explorations in myhology and consequently the relationship between science and ...
<<James, since you cast this post in terms of us, this particular camel will poke its nose (see PS) into the tent. It seems to me that you have just raised the...
Hi James, Well history... What is history and does it relate to mankind as a essence ? I re-understood that you are giving much credit to the entity 'history'...
... 'The word "actuality" doesn't necessarily have to do directly with existence, either, but can also refer to conscious and deliberate human activity in the...
James, I know I apologised last time so that what I am about to commit now is absolute and self-aware mischief, unforgivable, still you -are- really ...
Here, I pick up on the last part of your post 827: <There is...self is a synthesis. Of the finite and infinite, temporal and eternal, etc. He describes what he...
James, I have conflated two bites of the apple into a single bite, so this one will be a tad long. I am responding to the particular question of your post 827 ...
< Comment on method: if the definition is not equally clear to you based upon my exegesis of SUD (thanks for the correction), then you should take the time to...
<Mister Brown, I see when you're shooting for the hat trick (or going for the jugular) you always pull out 'Big Bertha'. You must have a direct link to her!> ...
James, I have just written a very long response in which I collected the various points left on the cutting room floor. I'll separate my response into what...
