To begin our study on time and the management of time, I feel this study should not be time comsuming but to the point and direct. There is few things wer must...
to whom it may concern (or not concern): i hereby declare that i am resigning from this group. i do this for multiple reasons. firstly, the purpose of this...
Suppose atheism is true. In other words, there is nothing beyond, or apart from, our natural universe. Without God, Kierkegaard's category of the religious...
Hi, am new to this forum, and encouraged by this thread to contribute. The self is that which points to self, and the Self is that which points to God. ... ...
In his reply to my despatch "The Ethical as the Highest Ideal", Een Enkelte raises a number of points of disagreement with me. A central stand of Een's...
Dear Een, I appreciate your point in "Understanding and Agreement". Whilst I understand your preference for a more personal way of writing, so we can...
... -- ... -- ... Dear Ken, When Self Is, "self" is "self-evident," as in the usage of truths held by George Washington, et al. Assuming, then, that you are...
For me the essential existential choice facing us is this: Be the sort of person who loves and acts out of love, or be the sort of person who pursues pleasure...
Dear Een, On reflection, I think addressing replies to individuals has a place within a forum such as this, so I shall adopt a case-by-case approach to my...
This is Ron, the Moderator. Feel free to address your posts any way you like. I would like this group to be a place for informal and enjoyable conversation....
Dear Een, I think you are confusing understanding with truth. Understanding a statement is one thing, its truth or falsity is another. I understand the muslim...
Dear Een, What do I mean by the objective/subjective distinction? I use the term 'objective' to refer to those features of reality which are to the largest...
Dear Jim, First of all, thank you for the reply. I will write back as soon as possible. In the mean time, could you tell me which things that I wrote that ...
Dear Een, I can agree with much of what you say. In fact, you express eloquently and powerfully SK's central communication that our task here and now is to...
... Answer: My reply was to Jim's message #251, dated Tues, Aug 17. But I included the relevant material from that message at the foot of my reply. If you did...
Hello John, It is good to see someone else joining in the discussion of Kierkegaardian themes. Just a quick point - Een is quite right, nowhere do I say that...
I think my appreciation of Socrates allows me to count him "beloved" also. Notwithstanding the difficulty I have in appropriating the "socratic method" (as you...
Jim, I can understand how a second-hand god-concept may be rejected on grounds of reason and morality, but I don't think one can consistently be "passionately...
Dear John, Thank you for responding to my message #251, and expressing your own views on the matters I discuss. You raise a number of criticisms of my views...
Dear Een, Thank you for expressing your understanding of the terms 'objective' and 'subjective' and relating them to other central concepts such as the self,...
Een, thank you for taking the trouble to offer your analysis of the Danish. I feel I am much obliged to you for it, and apologize for the delay in my...
Dear Een, Yes, this seems a good idea to me. Perhaps other members of the Kierkegaardian group will join us as well. I've only got the older Lowrie/Swenson...
Een, please check my word-substitutions [in brackets]. (CUP II.2.1 - Hong p.137, VII 104) "...the subjective issue is not something about the [objective] case...
Correction: my page ref to Hong is wrong. It is page 129 (this is the first page of CUP II.2.1) I ref Hong p.138 in my next post. Apologies for frustration...
VII 105 - Hong 130 [slightly re-arranged; emphases mine] "...Christianity assumes that subjectivity, as the possibi- lity of appropriation, is the possibility...
Dear Een, Thank you for your latest post on the subjective/objective distinction. I don't have any major objections to what you say. The following remarks are...
Commentary on The Sickness Unto Death, First Part, Section One, Sub-Section A (Pages 146-7, Lowrie 1953 translation) SK writes: "The self is a relation which...
Some considerations. Saint Paul likely assumed, or, better, he knew, that, as a matter of course of letting "...this Mind be in you, that was also in Christ ...
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