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Kierkegaard's truth draws on authenticity, fidelity and honesty [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
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Full Idea:
Kierkegaard offers a different interpretation of truth, which draws on the notions of authenticity, fidelity and honesty.
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From:
report of Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846]) by Clare Carlisle - Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed 4
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A reaction:
This notion of truth, meaning 'the real thing' (as in 'she was a true scholar'), seems to begin with Hegel. I suggest we use the word 'genuine' for that, and save 'truth' for its traditional role. It is disastrous to blur the simple concept of truth.
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Pure truth is for infinite beings only; I prefer endless striving for truth [Kierkegaard]
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Full Idea:
If God held all truth enclosed in his right hand, and in his left hand the ever-striving drive for truth, even if erring forever, and he were to say Choose! I would humbly fall at his left hand and say Father, give! Pure truth is for infinite beings only.
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From:
Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], p.106)
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A reaction:
A sobering realistic thought of our own limitations; Kierkegaard allows that there is no limit to how far we can strive for truth. Just that truth is comprehended by infinite beings (if any), not by mere mortals. [SY]
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Traditional views of truth are tautologies, and truth is empty without a subject [Kierkegaard, by Scruton]
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Full Idea:
Kierkegaard developed the idea of 'truth as subjectivity'; the traditional conceptions of truth - correspondence or coherence - he regarded as equally empty, not because false, but because tautologous; truth ceases to be empty when related to a subject.
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From:
report of Søren Kierkegaard (Either/Or: a fragment of life [1843]) by Roger Scruton - Short History of Modern Philosophy Ch.13
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A reaction:
It strikes me that the correspondence theory of truth also involves a subject. If you become too obsessed with the subject, you lose the concept of truth. You need a concept of the non-subject too. Truth concerns the contents of thought.
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