/lit/ - Literature

>>11260942
The real culprit here is the rationalist worldview, with the associated post-Hegelian idea that history is inherently teleological. This, reinforced by the Industrial Revolution and its consequences, has of course been a disaster for the human race. It has created a race of men focused on getting somewhere, oriented wholly towards futurity, ignorant of the facts of existence, incapable of existential thought, who know not to let the morrow take care for the things of itself; for (says Christ) sufficient is the day unto the evil thereof.
What you advocate is only the ethical mode of existence, which remains inferior to the religous mode, the which is our only hope of salvation.

The only paladin

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.

>bro
>if you don't have faith, ur fuckin dumb

do NOT call him a hunchback he's handsome ok

>muh paradoxes
>muh leaps into the abzurd
>muh despair
>muh duty to love

Find a single flaw.
No? You can't? Color me shocked.

>>11166221
I prefer to live as an individual before God.

>>11165935
>aspiring towards aesthetics at all

There once was a man named Soren,
Christianity's truth a-restorin'.
Broke up with his girl
More polemics to hurl;
The Danish Establishment, snorin'.

What does Kierkegaard mean by "movements" in Fear And Trembling?

>>11127490
Honestly shameful that I had to scroll this far down to see based Kierk.

What is his most positive and life-affirming
works?

Can someone power rank Kierkegaard for me? I just want to get a quick overview of his works and what i should prioritize reading.

sup guys

>And that, my friends, concludes the Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments postscript

No wonder you didn't get any pussy you hunchback loser

Did he BTFO all internet atheists 200 years before they became a phenomenon?

D-did he ever become a self guys?

*blocks your path*

Or you could make the smart choice and read Kierkegaard instead

>>11036208
>collective responsibility makes little sense in an individualistic context
Correct, but this isn't a problem as long as each individual retains his relationship with the power that constituted him.

Referring to the day of Pentecost:
>It is precisely the drunken man, the 'Apostle, who finds it necessary to press upon a sober world (as I can imagine it) the warning, 'Be sober'.
>This precisely is the warning which perhaps is most apt to wound the hardened worldly mind, which in general is not very easily wounded or put out of countenance. For the worldly mind can put up with a great deal, one can say pretty nearly anything to it, except to call it drunkenness. 'I', says the worldly mind, 'I stick to what's certain; I don't believe anything, not the least thing, unless I can take hold of it and feel it; and I don't believe anybody, not my own child, not my wife, not my best friend; I believe only what can be proved-- for I stick to what's certain... The one thing, I believe, which might for an instant disconcert me would be if it should occur to anyone to say that I was drunk, inebriated, to say this of me, the coldest and calmest and clearest intelligence.'
>Yet the Apostle says, 'Be sober!' and therewith he implies, 'Thou art drunken; unhappy man, if only thou couldst see thyself, perceive that with thee it is as with a drunkard when-- disgusting sight!-- he hardly resembles a man-- to such a degree art thou intoxicated.'
>So it is that the worldly and the Christian are related to one another.
>...For only the absolute makes one entirely sober.
The modern age is drunk on skepticism and speculation.

>>11011902
That's why Based Kierk is the best.

>>10997107
>muh paradoxes
it fits the bill

>>10972096
Unironically this, and everyone knows it.
But it's one of those final boss battles where you get an overpowered addition to your party at the last minute.