Kierkegaard on faith and the self : collected essays / C. Stephen Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, C. Stephen.

Series:

Provost series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Religion--Philosophy--History--19th century.

Religion.

Religion--Philosophy.

History.

Ethics, Modern--19th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Self (Philosophy)--History--19th century.

Self (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xv, 385 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2006]

Summary:

A detailed analysis of Kierkegaard's view of faith, ethics, and human psychology.

Contents:

Kierkegaard as a Christian thinker

Realism and antirealism in Kierkegaard's Concluding unscientific postscript

Kant and Kierkegaard on the possibility of metaphysics

The role of irony in Kierkegaard's Philosophical fragments

Kierkegaard's view of humor : must Christians always be solemn?

Misusing religious language : something about Kierkegaard and The myth of God incarnate

Is Kierkegaard an irrationalist? : reason, paradox, and faith

Apologetic arguments in Philosophical fragments

The relevance of historical evidence for Christian faith : a critique of a Kierkegaardian view

Kierkegaard and Plantinga on belief in God : subjectivity as the ground of properly basic religious beliefs

Externalist epistemology, subjectivity, and Christian knowledge : Plantinga and Kierkegaard

Faith as the telos of morality : a reading of Fear and trembling

A Kierkegaardian view of the foundations of morality

Kierkegaard on religious authority : the problem of the criterion

Who is the other in The sickness unto death? : God and human relations in the constitution of the self

Kierkegaard's view of the unconscious

Does Kierkegaard think beliefs can be directly willed?

Where there's a will there's a way : Kierkegaard's theory of action

Where can Kierkegaard take us?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-364) and index.

ISBN:

193279235X

OCLC:

62728480