The moral implications of Kierkegaard's analysis of despair
Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death famously characterizes despair as the sickness of any human being who does not live a life of faith. Kierkegaard supports this claim by providing a detailed analysis of despair in the first part of this essay. This analysis, I claim, presents the thesis tha...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Religious studies
Année: 2016, Volume: 52, Numéro: 1, Pages: 25-43 |
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Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855, Sygdommen til døden
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion VA Philosophie |
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| Résumé: | Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death famously characterizes despair as the sickness of any human being who does not live a life of faith. Kierkegaard supports this claim by providing a detailed analysis of despair in the first part of this essay. This analysis, I claim, presents the thesis that to be healed of despair is not only to maintain a correct relation to God but also to the world and, moreover, that the two relations are interdependent. Thus, in contrast to prominent readings of this essay, I claim that Kierkegaard's analysis of despair bears the important moral implication that a believer's relationship with other humans is indispensable to a life of faith. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412514000511 |