Kierkegaard as humanist : discovering my self / Arnold B. Come.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The self is the central and unifying theme of Soren Kierkegaard's writings. In Kierkegaard as Humanist, Arnold Come provides a comprehensive exposition of Kierkegaard's understanding of what it means to be a self and the problems and possibilities that every human being faces in the task of becoming a self. Come limits his discussion to the humanist dimensions of Kierkegaard's writings - to what is open to the experience of every human being without reference to or assistance from any particular religious insight or revelation. He concludes that Kierkegaard's ontology is independent of his Christian theology but includes an openness to and a relation with the eternal as inherent natural possibility in the experience of every human being.

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Contents -- Preface -- 1 MY SELF: AN OVERVIEW -- General Definition -- The Five Qualifications -- 1. A Relation -- 2. A Relation Which Relates to Itself -- 3. Established by an Other -- 4. A Failure -- 5. Transparent Rest in the Power -- 2 MY SELF: A SYNTHESIS OF TWO -- The Essential Duality: Inward, Outward -- The Procedure of Abstraction for Procuring an Anthropological Ontology -- Body /Soul -- Finitude/Infinitude -- Necessity/Possibility -- Summary -- 3 MY SELF: A TASK -- Part 1: Coming to Consciousness

Angst: The Birth-Pangs of Self-ConsciousnessReflection: The First Step toward Self-Consciousness -- Consciousness of My Self -- 4 MY SELF: A TASK -- Part 2: Freedom: The Dialectical in Temporality/Eternity -- The Relevance of the Dyad Temporal/Eternal for the Self -- Kierkegaard's Concept of Time -- The Resultant Nature of Freedom -- Freedom in Relation to the Past -- Freedom in Relation to the Future -- Freedom and the Eternal -- 5 MY SELF: A TASK -- Part 3: Freedom: The Dialectical in Possibility/Necessity -- Introduction

880-01 Part 5: Love as Freedom's ContentDistinction between Higher and Lower Natures -- Willing Located between the Two -- Love as Content of Freedom -- The Object of Love -- Unconditional Love versus Preferential Love -- Love's Triad -- Love Presupposes Love -- Works of Love Transform Human Existence -- Final Question: Is the Act of Love Indeterminate? -- 8 MY SELF: A TASK -- Part 6: The Leap of Love Is Indeterminate -- The Leap in Terms of the Three Breaches -- Willing as Decisive in Transition from Intention to Act

Willing and the Darkening of the UnderstandingKierkegaard's Concept of Self-Deception -- Willing as Uncaused, Free -- Interlude: Ontology and Theology -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W

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