Kant and Kierkegaard on time and eternity / Ronald M. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Ronald Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Sren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Sren.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Eternity.

Physical Description:

269 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Macon, GA : Mercer University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Building on his earlier work, Kierkegaard and Kant: The Hidden Debt, Ronald Green presents Kant as a major inspiration of Kierkegaard¿s authorship. Green believes that Kant¿s ethics provided the rigor on which Kierkegaard drew in developing his concept of sin. Green argues that the chief difference between Kant and Kierkegaard has to do with whether we need a historical savior to restore our broken moral wills. Kant rejected faith in vicarious atonement as undermining moral responsibility, and he pointed to the Genesis 22 episode of Abraham¿s sacrifice of Isaac as an example of how reliance on historical reports can undermine ethics. Kierkegaard rejected Kant¿s rationalist solution to the problem of radical human evil. Kant had demolished the ontological proof by showing that whether something exists (including God) can never be logically deduced. Kierkegaard turns this great insight against Kant: whether God has forgiven our transgressions cannot be deduced from our moral need. Either God did or did not intervene on our behalf. ¿This fact.¿ says Kierkegaard, ¿is the earnestness of existence.¿ Green offers unique readings of Fear and Trembling and Either/Or in his analysis and interpretation of Kierkegaard¿s reading and response to Kant and their understanding of divine and ethics. A closing chapter focuses on love in time. In Works of Love, Kierkegaard places emotional feelings within a transcendent context. Erotic love is noble, but it must be purged of self-love and seek the fulfillment of the beloved as an independent being. Only by assuming ethical and religious meaning can romantic love fulfill its promise of eternity.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

The First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative as Literally a Ï LegislativeÓ Metaphor

Kant on Christian Love

The Limits of the Ethical in Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety and Kant's Religion with the Limits of Reason Alone

Kant and Kierkegaard on the Need for a Historical Faith: An Imaginary Dialogue

Kant: A Debt both Obscure and Enormous

Developing" Fear and Trembling

Fear and Trembling: A Jewish Appreciation

Kierkegaard's Great Critique: as a Kantian Transcendental Deduction

Either/Or: Kierkegaard's Overture

Erotic Love in the Religious Existence-Sphere*

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-88146-359-0

OCLC:

923243800