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Repetition Quote - Kierkegaard
“When ideality and reality touch each other - then repetition occurs. When for example I see something in the moment ideality enters in and explains that it is repetition. Here is where the contradiction occurs for that which is is also in another mode. That the external is that I see but in the same instant I bring it into relation, something that also is, something that is the same and it will also explain that the other is the same. Here is redoubling - here is a matter of repetition.”
u/Possible_Buffalo5177 — 2 days ago
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u/kusashii — 4 days ago
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Purity of Heart
Purity Of Heart Is To Will One Thing
Page 140 Chapter 9
The price of willing one thing:
The Exposure Of Evasion
CLEVERNESS IS INDEED a great power, yet it is treated by him as an insignificant servant, as a shrewd contemptible one. He hears the servant, to be sure, but in action he is not guided by him. He uses cleverness against himself as a spy and informer, which informs him instantly of each evasion, yes, even gives warning at any suspicion of an evasion. Now just as the thief knows the hidden way-and goes by it, so the authorities also know it and go by it in order to detect the thief, but the knowl- edge as knowledge is the same in both cases.
This is the way he makes use of cleverness. I do not know whether it is true that at each man's birth two angels are born, his good and his bad angel. But this I do believe (and I will gladly listen to any objection, although will not believe it) that at each man's birth there comes into being an eternal vocation for him, expressly for him.
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I recently read this paragraph aloud to a group of individuals.
Who all asked, please read this again!
I personally recommend "Purity Of Heart Is To Will One Thing" for your summertime reading.
u/spunquik — 8 days ago
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“God” for an atheist Knight of Faith
How could Kirkeegaard’s God be understood beyond religion?
I relate quite strongly to his idea of two knights in Fear and Trembling, but feel like idea of God is not well explained - he’s sort of going by the Christian understanding, where God is both cosmic unknown but also has human characteristics, eg. asks for things, gets angry etc.
Given that, can there be a Knight of Faith, who serves a broader understanding of faith? What would he believe in? Virtue? Will? Humanity? Problem is that none of those can ask him to sacrifice Isaac.
u/Apoau — 13 days ago
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Leap of Faith. Am I Missing Kierkegaard’s Point?
Every Leap of Faith I’ve Taken has Ended in Betrayal.
Whenever I’ve taken a “leap of faith” in my life, it has led me straight into a ditch.
I trusted people because I believed sincerity would be met with sincerity. I gave others the benefit of the doubt, convinced myself that honesty, vulnerability & goodwill still meant something and would be reciprocated positively. I ignored hesitation and took the jump anyway believing the outcome would somehow justify the risk.
Instead, I was betrayed.
Not once or twice, but enough times that the pattern feels impossible to ignore. And what makes it worse is not just the betrayal itself, but the aftermath: The emotional exhaustion, the time lost, the resources spent trying to recover and rebuild myself after every fall.
Kierkegaard speaks about the leap of faith as something necessary, a movement beyond rational certainty - Transcendence.
How do you continue to leap after repeated experiences of being burned?
How to resolve the heavy feeling of resentment and skepticism while going forward?
Has your own “leap of faith” ever led somewhere meaningful or has it mostly been suffering dressed up as hope?
I’d genuinely like to hear how others here interpret this idea through their own experiences.
u/Faris_110 — 12 days ago