/lit/ - Literature

Kierkegaard general thread.

Can anyone that understands some Kierkegaard and modern contemporary morphology say something about why no one uses the term "surfing" as in surfing the web.

Also if you dont understand this guy you wont get really far, read up on it.

- Is it an excellence in your love that it can love only the extraordinary, the rare? If it were love’s merit to love the extraordinary, then God would be — if I dare say so — perplexed, for to Him the extraordinary does not exist at all. The merit of being able to love only the extraordinary is therefore more like an accusation, not against the extraordinary nor against love, but against the love which can love only the extraordinary. Perfection in the object is not perfection in the love. Erotic love is determined by the object; friendship is determined by the object; only love of one’s neighbor is determined by love. Therefore genuine love is recognizable by this, that its object is without any of the more definite qualifications of difference, which means that this love is recognizable only by love.

Which of his novels is the best introduction to kierkegaard?

What was Kierkegaard all about?

what films would this man enjoy?

>>4787002
>You must suspend the ethical for the religious.
You rang?

I'm gonna read Fear & Trembling. What else by him though?????

Everything has been torn to shreds by the petty gossip of journalism and the hollow laughter of comedy. Journalists and Comedians are parasites sucking the blood out of society: profaning everything that is holy; making light of everything that is solemn; turning this life into a dry witticism or clever pun.

There is nothing people today prize more than humour. Humour is the popular religion; humour is a way of relating to the world as a casual, disinterested observer. You may not often hear a man praise his friend by calling him a courageous man, or by saying that he is a loyal friend, or by saying that he is humble and committed to his family and to his work; but how often will you hear somebody say of their friend, "oh, he is very funny!" I'm young, I've been in the company of young people like myself. The way all of my friendships have turned out is that we take turns in amusing one and other, in making one and other laugh. We choose our friends based on "sense of humour", because somebody who cannot make us laugh "is boring". There are old friends that you have a kind of sentimental attachment to, and think that perhaps there is something beyond humour that unites you, perhaps loyalty - but then the most common thing happens, like the friend moving away or finding a new hobby and circle of acquaintances, and you find that you were indeed sentimental; and why did you ever think in such sentimental fashion the first place? Throughout your friendship little to no test of loyalty took place, as you would only gather when convenient and spend the time idly playing games and telling jokes to one and other. So why would you think the friendship would last once it became inconvenient?

>Are you proud of loving only the extraordinary, the rare? If it were merit to love only what is extraordinary then God would be - if I dare say so - puzzled, for there is nothing extraordinary to Him.The merit of loving only the extraordinary is therefore a contradiction; not against love or against the extraordinary, but against that love which is only for the extraordinary. Perfection in the object of love is not perfection in the love. Romantic love is about the object of love; friendship is about the object of love; but love of the neighbour is about love. This is genuine love, the love whose object has no worldly qualifications or distinctions, so that the object of love is love itself.

what is captain kirk's best book?>

I'm about to delve into all of Kierkegaard's works, /lit/. What should I expect?

>>4675975
why I've never read a word of Nietzsche and never will. Imagine if such a thing happened with fans of Kierkegaard
>at the bookstore picking up fear and trembling
>ruddy faced blonde fatass dressed in white and blue approaches
>I see his eyes light up
>"faith!!!!!" he bellows, and trust falls into me
>we both fall over
>never again

"I never half step 'cause I'm not a half stepper
Drink a lot of soda so they call me Dr. Pepper"
-Kierkegaard

>mfw there are people right now on /lit/ who never read senpai kierkegaard

>>4562507

>I like philosophers that can write worth a damn

Then why not read the one with superior prose?

>>4554031
Huh, did you say something, Schopenhauer? Still brooding over my critique?
>>4553912
Oh, and, Hegel, please sit down, you bloody obscurantist.

Which one of the philosophers is the most beautiful? I'd said Kierkegaard.

Soren did it first

>>4445781

>writer of book has in it contemplative prose

In this moment I am euphoric. Not because of any phony philosopher's System, but because I am enlightened by my own subjectivity.

>muh sheeple spirituality

>>4378628
>>4379727

This is how the Public levels.

Well read

list the books you think any educated person should have read.

>>4296247
I think the argument would be that a genuine ascetic person, in a world with ascetic meaning, would receive something more than material reward.

A lot of it comes down to faith really.