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Kierkegaard's Christian Existentialism
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Kierkegaard and Girard consciously place their work in the context of the Christian tradition. For both thinkers, the biblical account of the Fall of Man takes on central significance, whereas Sartre rejects this framework.
from René Girard's Mimetic Theory (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture) by Wolfgang Palaver
Existential ideas and attitudes have embedded themselves so deeply into modern culture that we hardly think of them as existentialist at all. People (at least in relatively prosperous countries where more urgent needs don’t intervene) talk about anxiety, dishonesty and the fear of commitment. They worry about being in bad faith, even if they don’t
... See morefrom On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts by James K. A. Smith
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- Kierkegaard said that the greatest hazard of all is losing oneself — dangerous because it occurs so quietly. To be fully ourselves, then, is a thunderous feat. It is to resist the inertia of comfort and conformity and half-lived lives; to engage in the deliberate, demanding act of self-authorship rather than assuming a role that has already been wr... See more
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- "Kierkegaard gives us some portrait sketches of the styles of denying possibility, or the lies of character-which is the same thing. He is intent on describing what we today call "inauthentic" men, men who avoid developing their own uniqueness; they follow out the styles of automatic and uncritical living in which they were conditioned as children.... See more
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A good place to start is the general definition of faith in Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript: “Without risk, no faith. Faith is the contradiction between the infinite passion of inwardness and the objective uncertainty.”8 This may seem like a difficult definition, but by unpacking Kierkegaard’s terminology we can see how it makes se
... See morefrom This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hägglund
Existentialism is not easy to define, but its most prominent characteristic is questioning the purpose of life. This question is posed in different ways by different authors.
from The Gambler [with Biographical Introduction] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky