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Love as a Relation to Truth: Envisioning the Person in Works of Love
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Rick Anthony Furtak
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24. Oktober 2013
Abstract
According to Kierkegaard, love plays a foundational role in human existence. In Works of Love, he identifies love as “the deepest ground” of existence and as “the source of everything,” a “passion of the emotions” that exerts its influence like a “hidden spring,” flowing from a single source “along many paths” and “forming the heart” of each human being. In this paper, I explain how love can provide grounding and orientation in the ways that Kierkegaard claims it can. Love is manifested in different forms, all of which are subject to the imperative of loving thy neighbor as thyself: it permits us to realize our own individuality and to appreciate the distinct existence of other persons, thus enabling us to inhabit a meaningful world. Thus, at the same time, love enables us to be and also to know.
Published Online: 2013-10-24
Published in Print: 2013-10
© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
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- Masthead
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Section 1: Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Motifs and Figures
- Kierkegaard on the Atonement: The Complementarity of Salvation as a Gift and Salvation as a Task
- Recognition and Its Discontents: Johannes de Silentio and the Preacher
- In Defense of a Straightforward Reading of Fear and Trembling
- Verführung nach Kierkegaard. Ein soziologischer Versuch
- Johannes Climacus on Coming into Existence: The Problem of Modality in Kierkegaard’s Fragments and Postscript
- Kierkegaard’s Passion for Equality
- The Abyss of Demonic Boredom: An Analysis of the Dialectic of Freedom and Facticity in Kierkegaard’s Early Works
- Section 2: Love and Passion
- Selfless Passion: Kierkegaard on True Love
- Kierkegaard, Metaphysics, and Love
- Self-Love and Neighbor-Love in Kierkegaard’s Ethics
- Love as a Relation to Truth: Envisioning the Person in Works of Love
- “Love” Among the Post-Socratics
- Love, Death, and the Limits of Singularity
- Kierkegaard and the Sheer Phenomenon of Love
- Love’s Hidden Laugh: On Jest, Earnestness, and Socratic Indirection in Kierkegaard’s “Praising Love”
- Passion as a Will to Existence in Kierkegaard
- Section 3: Kierkegaard in Dialogue
- Die philosophische Verflüchtigung des Glaubensbegriffs. Kierkegaards Auseinandersetzung mit Immanuel Hermann Fichte
- Kierkegaard and the Traditions of the Comic in Philosophy
- Why a Danish Golden Age? Structural Holes in 19th Century Copenhagen
- Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Living by a Guiding Passion
- The Self as a Center of Ethical Gravity: A Constructive Dialogue Between Søren Kierkegaard and George Herbert Mead
- Section 4: Current Debates and Controversies
- The Soul of a Philosopher: Reply to Turnbull
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Section 1: Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Motifs and Figures
- Kierkegaard on the Atonement: The Complementarity of Salvation as a Gift and Salvation as a Task
- Recognition and Its Discontents: Johannes de Silentio and the Preacher
- In Defense of a Straightforward Reading of Fear and Trembling
- Verführung nach Kierkegaard. Ein soziologischer Versuch
- Johannes Climacus on Coming into Existence: The Problem of Modality in Kierkegaard’s Fragments and Postscript
- Kierkegaard’s Passion for Equality
- The Abyss of Demonic Boredom: An Analysis of the Dialectic of Freedom and Facticity in Kierkegaard’s Early Works
- Section 2: Love and Passion
- Selfless Passion: Kierkegaard on True Love
- Kierkegaard, Metaphysics, and Love
- Self-Love and Neighbor-Love in Kierkegaard’s Ethics
- Love as a Relation to Truth: Envisioning the Person in Works of Love
- “Love” Among the Post-Socratics
- Love, Death, and the Limits of Singularity
- Kierkegaard and the Sheer Phenomenon of Love
- Love’s Hidden Laugh: On Jest, Earnestness, and Socratic Indirection in Kierkegaard’s “Praising Love”
- Passion as a Will to Existence in Kierkegaard
- Section 3: Kierkegaard in Dialogue
- Die philosophische Verflüchtigung des Glaubensbegriffs. Kierkegaards Auseinandersetzung mit Immanuel Hermann Fichte
- Kierkegaard and the Traditions of the Comic in Philosophy
- Why a Danish Golden Age? Structural Holes in 19th Century Copenhagen
- Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Living by a Guiding Passion
- The Self as a Center of Ethical Gravity: A Constructive Dialogue Between Søren Kierkegaard and George Herbert Mead
- Section 4: Current Debates and Controversies
- The Soul of a Philosopher: Reply to Turnbull
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
