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Primera aproximación a Kierkegaard.
Estudio de la angustia inherente en la naturaleza humana.
Aproximación religiosa pero no por ello descartable.
Lectura top.
Estudio de la angustia inherente en la naturaleza humana.
Aproximación religiosa pero no por ello descartable.
Lectura top.
These things always create conflicting feelings in me. I liked the book, it is a major philosophical work. Kierkegaard's influence on contemporary thinking is unquestionable, thanks to little details such as being the first existentialist, having an incredibly creative mind that made him a relevant figure in literature, psychology, theology... However, it is not something I can relate to, or agree with (I am not quite comfortable saying this, but well, it is the truth).
I would like to come back to it, someday.
July 12, 13
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Spoiler
Reflections about anxiety, which, according to Kierkegaard, existed even before the original sin. He states that it can make you sin, but it also may lead you to salvation. He is not talking about just one form of anxiety, he explores a lot of them. This book may give you a new perspective on life, if you can relate to its content. If not, it's still a truly interesting reading.July 12, 13
* Also on my blog.
challenging
informative
reflective
The Death of Socrates (1787) - Jacques-Louis David
When anxiety announces itself, when it cunningly pretends to have invented a new instrument of torture, far more terrible than anything before, he does not shrink back, and still less does he attempt to hold it off with noise and confusion; but he bids it welcome, greets it festively, and like Socrates who raised the poisoned cup, he shuts himself up with it and says as a patient would say to the surgeon when the painful operation is about to begin: Now I am ready. Then anxiety enters into his soul and searches out everything and anxiously torments everything finite and petty out of him, and then it leads him where he wills.
El libro tiene momentos fantásticos, lúcidos y sagrados, hundidos en un mar de repetición innecesaria. Habiendo leído un poco de Kierkegaard en inglés, le echo un poco la culpa al traductor. Consideré dejar el libro botado cuando me faltaban unas 30 páginas, y estoy feliz de no haberlo hecho, porque realmente es un libro hermoso a pesar del ruido que tiene alrededor de la sustancia.
Still enlightening as ever, Kierkegaard gets a bit pretentious in this one. But it's okay. I wish the best of luck to any adventuring into this work. It's dense and thorough and quite the trip. One I will certainly need to return to in order to properly review. But for now, I accept it as a work done by a great thinker. A work that provides alternative understandings to inherited sin and the narrative of Adam. Ideas worth considering, pondering, or just trying to interpret. The man doesn't go easy; nor should he.
A áurea misógina me bateu muito, tentei continuar mas não deu. A base da teoria inteira demonstrada no livro é construída no conceito de sensualidade atrelada à figura feminina, colocando o ápice da mulher como a procriação. Não dá. Beijinhos da Anita.
challenging
reflective
I didn't realize how interesting this book could be at this reading. You fall asleep while reading it if you are not awake. It feels like Kierkegaard is continually repeating himself. However, after the fact and in reflection, I found some benefits. Here is what I got from it.
In the Garden of Eden, Adam is most satisfied. He breathes the joy of living until God commands him: "Do not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge!" Adam is no longer accessible since there is now one thing he cannot do. To prove that he is free, he must violate this prohibition, this law - despite the consequences. The anguish comes from knowing what we must do to prove our freedom, even when it must destroy us. Hence, the idea that "anguish is the vertigo of freedom." The release is not a right but a privilege for those who can prove themselves worthy of it.
Finally, it is a book that I do not regret having read!
In the Garden of Eden, Adam is most satisfied. He breathes the joy of living until God commands him: "Do not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge!" Adam is no longer accessible since there is now one thing he cannot do. To prove that he is free, he must violate this prohibition, this law - despite the consequences. The anguish comes from knowing what we must do to prove our freedom, even when it must destroy us. Hence, the idea that "anguish is the vertigo of freedom." The release is not a right but a privilege for those who can prove themselves worthy of it.
Finally, it is a book that I do not regret having read!
The demonic is unfreedom that wants to close itself
o:f:f. This, however, is and remains an impossibility. It
always retains a relation, and even when this has apparently
disappeared altogether, it is nevertheless there, and anxiety
at once mani:fests itself in the moment of contact with the
good • • • • (123; 390)
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.681.6269&rep=rep1&type=pdf
o:f:f. This, however, is and remains an impossibility. It
always retains a relation, and even when this has apparently
disappeared altogether, it is nevertheless there, and anxiety
at once mani:fests itself in the moment of contact with the
good • • • • (123; 390)
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.681.6269&rep=rep1&type=pdf