We are - I think - still often prisoners of Kant, and thus I think we are in deep need of this kind of Kierkegaardian. From Wordnik.com. [Faith and Theology] Reference
He embraces his racial identity despite his mixed parentage through a kind of Kierkegaardian leap into blackness, through which he hopes to become a whole, untroubled person. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
There is a Kierkegaardian irrationalism in the sense. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Nonny Mouse posed "the Kierkegaardian question: what do you believe in?". From Wordnik.com. [Rückkehr nach der bayrischen Heimat] Reference
For me to believe in Antimatter requires a Kierkegaardian leap of faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Buckle of the Bible Belt « Lean Left] Reference
Kennedy (the Kierkegaardian) would have you believe these things didn't exist. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
He's a philosophy major and a Kierkegaardian, so I'll give him a pass on his opportunistic party-switching. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
Well, we've never had a president who ever tried a "Kierkegaardian leap into ... becoming a whole, untroubled person". From Wordnik.com. ["Invisible Man: How Ralph Ellison explains Barack Obama."] Reference
People assume there are no continuity errors in reality. — which is, in fact, a quintessentially Kierkegaardian idea. From Wordnik.com. [This and/or that] Reference
This Kantian and Kierkegaardian spirit, though perhaps not the word, continued in Europe under the auspices of Husserlian phenomenology. From Wordnik.com. [Deleuze’s solidary architectonic can't be studied in isolation by decoupling it from the fundament] Reference
The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrestled with the problem of revelation without certainty; we have here, perhaps, the limit case of the Kierkegaardian leap of faith. From Wordnik.com. [Love from above] Reference
You can tell that the author has to struggle to remind himself he's tormented; compared with confident, and-the-ship-sails-on Bill, his nineties media cousin O.J. seems racked by Kierkegaardian agonies. From Wordnik.com. [Policy Wank] Reference
Freedman's inability to acknowledge this is reflected in the way that he misrepresents our Kierkegaardian allusion to a particular kind of student who, as we noted, is genuinely concerned with "education and knowledge.". From Wordnik.com. [Berkeley] Reference
Yet in a world dominated by logical Hegelian dialectics and duty-bound Kantian principles, taking this totally Kierkegaardian leap into the unknown at middle age looked to everyone like a leap off a precipice into a maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [Tish Grier: Is Fearlessness Just a Bunch of Foolishness?] Reference
So a radical conservative is like an atheist Catholic or a moderate Kierkegaardian; to really live up to what the noun means, you have to cut yourself off from the standpoint towards your own views that the adjective suggests. From Wordnik.com. [Semantic quibbles #3: Conservatism] Reference
One may wonder, of course, where Camus is heading by his insistence on a Kierkegaardian sense of guilt whose bottomless abyss is omnipresent, for one always has the feeling that the author has reached a turning point in his development. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The fideist, decisionist, and absurdist traditions in Christianity seem so much more compelling to me (were I to choose): Pauline conversion; Tertullian apologetics; Pascalian wagering; Kierkegaardian fearfulness and faith-leaping; Calvinist depravity and helplessness. From Wordnik.com. [John Seery: An Egghead's Eggnog Tidings] Reference
Still, it does address the Kierkegaardian despair of necessity that animated Rogue Assassin. From Wordnik.com. [JessicarulestheUniverse] Reference
Word and Spirit: A Kierkegaardian Critique of the Modern Age, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. From Wordnik.com. [Søren Kierkegaard] Reference
He would then be guilty of misreading not Kierkegaard, but Lenin-i. e., misreading Lenin in a Kierkegaardian way. From Wordnik.com. [An und für sich] Reference
Kierkegaardian philosophy: "People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Aramaic was founded by Yusaku Soussumi, a psychotherapist who devised his own mix of cognitive therapy, neuroscience and Kierkegaardian philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
Kierkegaardian doctrine of the leap of faith, a leap which presupposes a cognitive gap, as it were, between what we know and what we are called upon to believe. From Wordnik.com. [Biblical Evidence for Catholicism] Reference
I had, it appears, about Heiberg's Klister and Malle, an inseparable betrothed couple, used what was, for that matter, an undoubtedly Kierkegaardian expression, viz., to beslobber a relation. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth]
Calculus requires a sort of Kierkegaardian leap of faith - in order to actually DO it, you have to put your inability to actually understand how it works aside, and just learn the process of its mechanics. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
The published Introduction gives a true picture of the stage of my development then, partly because it shows the manner in which I had worked together external influences, the Kierkegaardian thoughts and the. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference
I suspect the same thing, but until someone can prove it empirically, I'm sticking to my Kierkegaardian subjectivity: My taste in beer is no better than anyone else's, and vice-versa. stories with the most comments in the last 7 days. From Wordnik.com. [Reader - MassLive.com] Reference
Indeed, at this early stage in his development Jaspers 'thought hinged on an existential ” or Kierkegaardian ” alteration of Hegelian philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Jaspers] Reference
Pardon me for getting all Kierkegaardian here, but what is needed is not more reason but a leap of faith: Israel has a policy that until there is 100% of a cease fire (which there never is) they won’t make major concessions. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Parallel] Reference
DebasisMandal Stock markets around the world is taking a huge Kierkegaardian leap of faith #dowjones #nasdaq #sensex gioberrios entrando al twitter's world mortgagebkr I have found a few stated income loans left in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
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