How to Speak the Truth According to Kierkegaard
In this article, I examine Soren Kierkegaard's existential critique for truth-speaking. My contention is that this is more than a mere quest for sincerity in religious profession. Kierkegaard, rather, is concerned with the existential position that is inherent in the way a person confesses the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2023
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Sophia
Year: 2023, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 275-291 |
| Further subjects: | B
Confession
B Truth-speaking B The Self B Kierkegaard B Sincerity B Truth |
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| Summary: | In this article, I examine Soren Kierkegaard's existential critique for truth-speaking. My contention is that this is more than a mere quest for sincerity in religious profession. Kierkegaard, rather, is concerned with the existential position that is inherent in the way a person confesses the doctrines of the Christian faith. I show how Kierkegaard uses his pseudonyms to problematise the issue of making religious truth claims and then I explain how Kierkegaard's notion of truth-speaking operates within his definition of the self as a process of relating. To speak the truth one must inhabit a particular existential situation and one's speaking must become part of an authentic process of becoming that is itself truth. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-023-00947-2 |