Reading the moral at the end of Philosophical Fragments helps to illuminate the meaning of the text. The moral does this to the extent that the ideas in Philosophical Fragments, Johannes Climacus and Sickness Unto Death can be categorized into one of the four points made in the moral which I have numbered below: “This…
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Kierkegaard, S. (1985). Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus : Kierkegaard’s Writings, Vol 7. (E. H. Hong & H. V. Hong, Trans.). Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. Faith is a paradox. Faith is not knowledge because knowledge can not have such a paradox as faith. On page 62 Climacus says, “ Faith is not knowledge, for all knowledge is…
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