"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....
Hi Rick, I see where you have been accused of having penned a clear post; a bit of exaggeration I would suspect. Anyway, since that bit is all about your...
"It is obvious, then, that the temporal order cannot be the transparent medium of the Eternal. In its given reality the temporal order is in conflict with the...
Dear Jim R., I tend to agree with most of what you write to the Kierkegaardian forum, so I have not felt the need to engage you in conversation in the past. I...
Dear Jim, I think the differences between us are small. I am not sure if they are small and significant or small and insignificant. You emphasize the character...
Rick, rather than repeating much of what you have said, which is to say that I agree with the thrust of your questions, let's move on. If any other wishes to...
... important too... Well, probably so if the subject /is/ inwardness. Like Rick, I had written something that I decided not to post since it was more of the ...
(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...
Dear Jim, Thank you for your clarification. I am sorry I have been rather slow to pick up the nuances of meaning in your posts. I feel I am now completely...
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...
jr, I'm well aware of the source data you speak of and its not in question. Are you saying that because K says that the psudonymnity of CoA is weak" that ergo,...
Please forgive the blank post. don ... From: kierkegaardians@yahoogroups.com [mailto:kierkegaardians@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Don Anderson Sent: Friday,...
Hi Don, welcome back---did you know that you can delete any message you have posted? It's there on the right whenever you bring up a post you have posted. You...
Jim R., I really, really should reply in a timely matter, but other considerations got in the way and put this particular reply on the back burner. I think by...
Hi Jim R., I think your last statement will suffice to make a beginning on an attempt at clarification of the difference between our readings of SK. ... change...
... elaborate on the categories of the aesthetic and the ethical, and how they figure into your thinking about the transitions you're talking about. I would...
... discussion is worth pursuing because we're in basic agreement. Inwardness is what's really important either way."< What caught my attention in that...
I am glad you raised the question of the demonic. Here is the quote I have filed away as my key to the concept: "The most concrete content that consciousness...
... That which is completed is an identity to be reflected upon. That signifies the esthetic identity. This completion is the leap that posits the self. The...
... entangled ... I'll ... Rick, I am glad you did not take me for granite; obsidian is arrowhead material and I aim to pierce. I did not pick up on the punch...
Ricky, master, to hear is to obey. I'll begin work on a reply to Jim's two posts 4thwith. The winter garden had been calling for attention, but first thing...
Dear Jim R., Rick is quite right - Kierkegaard argues consistently and clearly in both CUP and SUD that consciousness of guilt comes before consciousness of...
Well, Rick, if SK is to be believed, this solution to the problem I suggested that we need to solve on how guilt and sin mesh with each other is the perfect...
Hello everyone, I am new here. Actually I am both new here and quite new to kierkegaardian things so I hope everyone is not going to jump on me for I ask...
Dear Jim, You ask me a number of questions which will require me to go back to my notes on CoA, CUP and SUD in order to answer properly. I'll make some...
Hi Jim, Hi Rick, You will allow me to call you by your first names, right? Thanks a lot for replying. I'll take your answers seperately for they seem to be att...
Jeff, Let me take a whack at the question you ask, "Why is the aesthetic necessarily unethical?" The answer to this question is complex and is not easily...