This essay explores the impact of Søren Kierkegaard upon the important Italian Thomist, Cornelio Fabro. Fabro rejected the caricature of Kierkegaard as an "irrationalist" and placed him firmly in the Christian tradition. By highlighting the influence of Kierkegaard upon a Thomist like Fabro, the relevance of Fabro's own thought is opened up for more contemporary debates in theology regarding th...

Søren Kierkegaard has been frequently associated with fideism, that is, the affirmation of the priority of faith and religion over reason and even ethics in public life.1 One not atypical work can claim: “The greatest exponent of fideism in modern times was Kierkegaard. For Kierkegaard, Christianity is the denial of everything we rationally think.”2 Likewise, in his contribution on fideism in A...

This paper presents the connection between Kierkegaard as a philosopher and Langer as a psychologist in opening up the possibility of dialogical interactions between philosophy and psychology. The paper demonstrates how both Kierkegaard and Langer transcend the pre-established parlance of the disciplinary paradigmatic analysis and invent new and interdependent multidisciplinary perspectives. Th...

Recent authors have suggested that Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings are fundamentally ironical, and that it is mistaken to see them as containing philosophical and theological claims. Rather, the point of these writings is to show that the really important theological and philosophical truths cannot be expressed. I argue that such interpreters are correct to see pervasive irony in Kierkegaar...

Problem of Ethical Metaphysics,” I promise to show how Kierkegaard provides a solution to ethical problems raised by the intersection of Levinas and Kant. This same solution, I hope to argue elsewhere, appears implicitly in the subtext of Plato’s Republic and in a few other key places in the history of Western philosophy. The unfinished paper below is a start in the direction of an answer on be...

Kierkegaard’s literary theory is above all a theory of communication, and the primarily religious author Kierkegaard has developed a complicated theory regarding communication the task of which consists in “making” the hearer “aware of the religious”, and, in fact, to make of him a genuine Christian believer. To achieve this goal Kierkegaard uses the Christian traditional conjunction of spes et...

3 It seems as though I had not drunk from the cup of wisdom, but had fallen into it Søren Kierkegaard To Panu

this investigation, is consideration in relation between faith and moral in soren kierkegaard`s point of view, as two undeniable fact of mankind living reality that wich kierkegaard, christian fideist philosopher, describe from christian faith; she scrutinize`s this relation with study bible and some of chiristianity teachings as incarnation and expiate and the three persons. on the other hand,...

Recent years have seen a notable resurgence of interest in the philosophy of love and friendship. In this paper, I bring into dialogue two important texts that approach this topic from a Christian point of view: C. S. Lewis‟s The Four Loves and Søren Kierkegaard‟s Works of Love. I shall argue that each thinker helpfully clarifies important points the other leaves obscure, and that Lewis (like K...

The aim of this paper is to make sense of cases of apparent nonsense in the writings of Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. Against commentators such as Cora Diamond and James Conant, we argue that, in the case of Wittgenstein, recognising such a category of nonsense is necessary in order to understand the development of his thought. In the case of Kierkegaard, we argue against the view that the noti...