Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes
Kierkegaard on Knowledge (Part One)
March 6, 202659 min · 9,227 words
Show notes
On an excerpt from Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846) that critiques Hegel's idea of logic (dialectic) and then argues for his own conception of "truth as subjectivity." In this first part, he's mostly focusing on Hegel. First (along with the rest of the world), K. denies Hegel's idea that logic is equivalent to physics (or biology, or any other analysis of what actually exists).
Highlighted moments
Consequently, A, a logical system can be given. B, but a system of existence cannot be given.
“It is indeed curious to make movement the basis in the sphere in which movement is inconceivable, or to have movement explain logic, whereas logic cannot explain movement.”
“Existence itself is a system for God, but it cannot be a system for any existing spirit.”
“Even if a good-natured thinker is so absent-minded as to forget that he himself is existing, speculative thought and absent-mindedness are still not quite the same thing.”
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