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Single Idea 7586

[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature ]

Full Idea

God does not think, He creates; God does not exist, he is eternal.

Gist of Idea

God does not think or exist; God creates, and is eternal

Source

Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], 'Thinker')

Book Ref

Kierkegaard,Søren: 'A Kierkegaard Anthology', ed/tr. Bretall,Robert [Princeton 1946], p.231

A Reaction

The sort of nicely challenging remarks we pay philosophers to come up with. I don't understand the second claim, but the first one certainly avoids all paradoxes that arise if God experiences all the intrinsic problems of thinking.

The 15 ideas from 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'

22092 Kierkegaard's truth draws on authenticity, fidelity and honesty [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
20313 The highest truth we can get is uncertainty held fast by an inward passion [Kierkegaard]
20314 People want to lose themselves in movements and history, instead of being individuals [Kierkegaard]
20312 God cannot be demonstrated objectively, because God is a subject, only existing inwardly [Kierkegaard]
7578 I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere [Kierkegaard]
7584 Without risk there is no faith [Kierkegaard]
7580 Pantheism destroys the distinction between good and evil [Kierkegaard]
7579 While big metaphysics is complete without ethics, personal philosophy emphasises ethics [Kierkegaard]
7581 Speculative philosophy loses the individual in a vast vision of humanity [Kierkegaard]
15999 Pure truth is for infinite beings only; I prefer endless striving for truth [Kierkegaard]
20742 The real subject is ethical, not cognitive [Kierkegaard]
22047 Wherever there is painless contradiction there is also comedy [Kierkegaard]
7583 Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity [Kierkegaard]
7582 Becoming what one is is a huge difficulty, because we strongly aspire to be something else [Kierkegaard]
7586 God does not think or exist; God creates, and is eternal [Kierkegaard]