All truly important information cannot be communicated

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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An individual human being cannot be thought

The individual human being lies beneath the concept; an individual human being cannot be thought, but only the concept, ‘man’ What does this statement have to do with sin? What does it have to do with Christianity? What is the difference between general and specific? It seems to me that to understand the specific seems…

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