Kierkegaard on Imitation and Ethics: Toward a Secular Project?

This essay demonstrates the prominence of imitation in Kierkegaard’s ethics. I move beyond his idea of authentic existence modeled on Christ and explore the secular dimension of Kierkegaard’s insights about human nature and imitation. I start with presenting imitation as key to understanding the eth...

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Main Author: Kaftanski, Wojciech (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 48, Issue: 3, Pages: 557-577
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855 / Human being / Individuality / Immitation
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NCB Personal ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Gabriel Tarde
B Comparison
B Søren Kierkegaard
B Imitation
B Friedrich Schleiermacher
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