Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes
Kierkegaard on Knowledge (Part Two)
March 12, 202655 min · 8,365 words
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Continuing on Concluding Unscientific Postscript, now beginning the section called "Subjective Truth, Inwardness; Truth Is Subjectivity." K. slowly unravels his thoughts on why objective thought as Hegel (or anyone else) conceives of it is inhuman: We are persons changing over time, trying to know a world that is changing over time, so knowledge claims must not avoid mention of the position of the knowing subject. Read along with us, starting at the bottom of p198 (PDF p3). To get future parts of this discussion, you'll need to support us at
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every beginning, when it is made, if it is not arbitrariness by not being conscious of this, does not occur by virtue of immanental thinking, but is made by virtue of a resolution, essentially by virtue of faith.
“As soon as the being of truth becomes empirically concrete, truth itself is in the process of becoming and is indeed in turn by intimation, the agreement between thinking and being, and is indeed actually that way for God, but it is not that way for any existing spirit”
“To subjective reflection, truth becomes appropriation, inwardness, subjectivity. And the point is to immerse oneself existing in subjectivity.”
“Of what help is it to explain how the eternal truth is to be understood eternally when the one to use the explanation is prevented from understanding it in this way because he is existing and is merely a phantast if he fancies himself to be subspecie eternae?”
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