Kierkegaard on Imitation and Ethics: Toward a Secular Project?
This essay demonstrates the prominence of imitation in Kierkegaard’s ethics. I move beyond his idea of authentic existence modeled on Christ and explore the secular dimension of Kierkegaard’s insights about human nature and imitation. I start with presenting imitation as key to understanding the eth...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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Journal of religious ethics
Année: 2020, Volume: 48, Numéro: 3, Pages: 557-577 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855
/ Être humain
/ Individualité
/ Imitation
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| Classifications IxTheo: | AB Philosophie de la religion NCB Éthique individuelle VA Philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Ethics
B Gabriel Tarde B Comparison B Søren Kierkegaard B Imitation B Friedrich Schleiermacher |
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| Résumé: | This essay demonstrates the prominence of imitation in Kierkegaard’s ethics. I move beyond his idea of authentic existence modeled on Christ and explore the secular dimension of Kierkegaard’s insights about human nature and imitation. I start with presenting imitation as key to understanding the ethical dimension of the relationship between the universal and individual aspects of the human self in Kierkegaard. I then show that Kierkegaard’s moral concepts of “primitivity” and “comparison” are a response to his sociological and psychological observations about imitation from an ethical point of view. In the final section of this paper, I briefly engage Friedrich Schleiermacher’s “ethics of individuality” and Gabriel Tarde’s “laws of imitation” to explore Kierkegaard’s consideration of ethics and imitation as situated within the context of a broader conversation on imitation. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12322 |