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why did some people call him the Socrates of the North?

>> No.6588599

because he's from north

>> No.6588601

>>6588589
because he was from the northern hemisphere and like Socrates Kierkegaard was also a Christian.

>> No.6588603

like socrates he wasn't real. that's why you only seen him in illustrations

>> No.6589091

>>6588589
they've never been seen in the same place at the same time

>> No.6589109

>>6588601
>like Socrates Kierkegaard was also a Christian.

b8/9

>> No.6589572

It was what they used to call people from the north before Game of thrones.

>> No.6589581

>>6588589
can i see your face though?

>> No.6589584
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>>6589091
I was going to call you a retard and laugh at you... But then i realized it does make sense.

>> No.6589589

The Greeks migrated to Denmark sometime during the reign of Mehmed III.

>> No.6590771

haha very memetic responses I came back to read some serious input on the history of philosophy and all I got was reddit-tier "wit"

>> No.6590783

I can never get past a few pages of his writing, the shit is so dense.

>> No.6591782

>>6588589
My guess is because both were such game changers in the field of philosophy.

>> No.6592192

The way he tackled philosophy/the way he wrote. He never professed one strain of thought. He wrote under pseudonyms that each had different positions and outlooks on what he wrote on. He did this to stimulate thought and self-reflection in the subject, the same point Socrates tried to reach with the Socratic approach.

>> No.6592197

>>6590783
Filtered.

>> No.6592667

>>6588589
he was ironing as hot as Socrates was.

>> No.6592715

>>6588589
They both wanted to be gadflies and irritate horses.

>> No.6593134

Also, he didn't want to tell people 'this is the way it/things are,' he wanted to guide people to the truth, not spoon feed. He believed there to be more importance in subjective truth than objective (regarding religion, a lot of people get this part confused), our subjective god-relationship is infinitely more important than the memorization of scripture and specific elements of [insert your sect of Christianity here].

>> No.6593140

>>6593134
The confusion of his subjective truth in regard to religion is why most think of him as the grandfather of existentialism.

>> No.6593148

this is the worst thread I've ever seen

>> No.6593620

>>6589109
Haven't you ever read Dante's Inferno?