Saw this at the library and decided to give it a read despite my knowing hardly anything about philosophy. Did I make a mistake?
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Either/Or
Saw this at the library and decided to give it a read despite my knowing hardly anything about philosophy. Did I make a mistake?
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I'm also new to Kierkegaard, currently reading Fear and Trembling. Keep in mind the man's a Christian.
According to the introduction he wasn't explicitly Christian when he wrote Either/Or. So far the book is a fictional aesthete talking about why Don Giovanni is a classic work of art.
A Christian can't be an Existentialist
Why?
The basic tenets of existential philosophy cannot be reconciled with the Bible or the Catholic faith.
existential philosophy was created by atheists and atheists are the product of judaism
Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism is literally a Christian, and a devout defender of Christian faith. Unless if for this reason he used pseudonyms then I'm afraid I don't know what you're trying to imply.
He would be killed for heresy in a christian state
I don't give a shit about your interpretation, the church and people more knowledgeable in the faith disagree
“Interpretation”, lol. Surely morons like you can discern what is knowledgeable.
Kierkegaard is as much of a Christian as Spinoza is a theist
What is in Job, Ecclesiastes that is not an existential approach to man’s relation with God?
Okay, why?
Fantastic book, but a difficult place to start. Two main pieces of advice:
1. Do not disregard the pseudonyms. None of this book is written by Kierkegaard in his own voice, and this matters quite a lot.
2. Read Fear and Trembling immediately afterwards, they are meant to go together, and it will save you from the erroneous interpretation that E/O is meant to suggest an impossible decision between two forms of life. Kierkegaard ultimately endorses neither the aesthetic nor the ethical.
Nonsense but you already know this
Fear and Trembling is an incredibly moving book. I easily read it six times just to make sure I absorbed and understood what he had to say because the book was so short but so condensed you couldn’t afford to skip a word.
The Sickness Unto Death is also marvelous, but Fear and Trembling is a great place to start with him.
Without knowing what else your library has in the way of philosophy it is a hard question to answer. I will say no.
>Without knowing what else your library has in the way of philosophy
Nothing, I don't really read nonfiction.
Hong translation is way better
read the preface
No, it isn't. Hong's translations are full of mistakes:
https://pietyonkierkegaard.com/2015/03/03/mistake-in-hongs-translation/
penguin version is cucked. always get the hong ones for kierkegaard
No one in this thread has read the book. How do I know this? Because no one even mentioned Hegel, the book is, in part, a criticism of Hegel's philosophy. So, yeah, you shouldn't read it without understanding Hegel first.
Dumbass
I didn't know you're supposed to read Either/Or before Fear & Trembling. Now that I've done a bit of research it seems that makes sense.
I have not checked a single page of Hegel but based on his reputation I just know my small brain won't get anything out of it, I'm already struggling with Kierkegaard so I'll just read summary or watch videos of him I guess.
>you shouldn't read it without understanding Hegel first
But isn't Hegel notoriously difficult to understand?
Yes most of that era of Kierkegaard is in response to Hegel but if OP is already new to philosophy it wouldn't be very helpful to tell him to read Hegel first.