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Kierkegaard and the Significance of the Absolute Paradox

出版	1998
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=F808OAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In only forty-two years of life, the Danish philosopher/theologian Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) came to have a profound imact on modern thought by challenging the Hegelian "System" and attacking the Christian church of his homeland. His ultimate concern in both cases was the increasing popularity of the objective pursuit of knowledge which is fundamentally impersonal, dispassionate, and absolutely counter to the process of "becoming subjective." In this paper, I explore Kierkegaard's notion of existence, which he fears is misrepresented and misunderstood in a world of speculative "objectivity," and I show how, for Kierkegaard, a proper understanding of Christianity can be attained only by understanidng what it means "to exist." More specificaclly, I argue that the absolute paradox (the enterance of Christ into history) is the focal point of Kierkegaard's authorship which protects Christianity from intellectual speculation while reinforcing the importance of human freedom and selfhood