The Bible and Western Culture - Kierkegaard's Leap of Faith

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"Kierkegaard is a theologian with the soul of a poet and the analytical abilities of a philosopher."

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[@JulianGentry]

"Are you willing to go beyond the domain of MERE rationality?" That's such a good quote. Rationality is not the basis of all things.

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[@Verulam1626]

Chesterton's book Orthodoxy is good on this. He says something like: The madman is not someone who has lost their reason, they are someone who has lost everything but their reason.

[@CandorHispanus]

"Rationality is not the basis of all things," he rationalized.

[@heir8095]

You would say that, you aesthetic person. (That's what Kierkegaard would say, not me lol)

[@thattimestampguy]

0:21 Who Was Soren Kierkegaard? 2:28 Manifesting Psychic Difficulties 3:32 Pseudonyms Kierkegaard wrote under, plus he gave himself bad reviews. 5:26 Chose to Wander Alone 6:33 An Individual At All Costs. 9:30 Faith Has No Justificiation "Man Proposes, God Disposes" You will not add and subtract your way to God. 12:30 Is our Conscious our standard to Judge the Bible? 13:45 Abraham and Issac 15:44 There is No Rational Justification of Faithful Actions 16:21 BINARY OPPOSITION: YOU CAN HAVE A OR B, No AB BA 17:08 A Leap of Faith, Criteraless 18:50 Wander into Despair or Walk With God. 20:26 Fragments, going on and on and on Irony Layered Upon Irony 21:47 The Meno, Reminder, Revelation 23:38 _The Present Age_ 25:09 25:39 Athens was a mistake 26:29 Resentment, Hatred, Envy 27:36 Gossip About NOTHING 27:58 "People that do not know how to remain silent, do not know how to talk." 28:24 29:56 Tortured Individual embodying Job 30:12 “All Theology is Blasphemy” 31:07 Take whatever God dishes out, he does not want your advice. 32:18 Self-Sacrifice for Faith. 33:07 You must Choose 33:27 Kierkegaard vs Martin Luther, The Truly Righteous Man Unifies Work and Faith. 34:51 A Mediation on Faith 36:00 Confront Your Own Soul, 37:34 “Being a Christian is not an Event, it is a Process.” _Parable of The Rich Young Man_ 38:24 The Theological Joker, The Wise Fool 40:11 Disarming in Irony and Candor 40:52 20th Century Atheistic Existentialism 41:39 Comedy and Christianity 🎭 ✝️ 42:23 “Melancholy Men Have The Best Sense of Humor.”

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[@nightoftheworld]

10:47 *Kierkegaardian leap of faith* “One of the things that is wrong with this age is that it lacks faith. It not only lacks faith but it lacks even passion and passion is a necessary precondition for faith. You rational people-people with the souls of accountants I’m afraid are trying to add up and subtract your way to God and that is not how you will do it. You will do it only by making a leap of faith, by taking a chance.”

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The _ultimate_ leap of faith-radical freedom: “As Hegel put it, what dies on the Cross is NOT the human incarnation of the transcendent God, but the God of Beyond Himself. Through Christ’s sacrifice, God Himself is no longer beyond, but passes into the Holy Spirit (of the religious community) [...] God is no longer the substantial master up there, God is - to put it in this way - the spirit of our community, the gift of freedom.” -Zizek

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Just as Hume in the first part of his Treatise on Human Nature uses his incredible reason to argue the impotence of reason, Kierkegaard uses his incredible mind and reason to argue the impotence if reason. Neither understood that God gave us reason to make our lives better and navigate all the exigencies and benefits of life.

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The Crisis of Faith - life tends to present itself as a series of unfolding morally ambiguous problems. Problems which the right path to take isn’t wholly understood. Problems where you must roll the dice & take your best chance. Without this you stand no chance to the inevitable. Without this you cease to influence beyond that which you could control. “He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all”.

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Only this decision costs (not less than) everything. You must be willing to put up everything in this wager - this MUST transform your life. Need you not believe in God. Belief could be either, belief could be or. Nonetheless, you must choose.

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Here you have no ground for making your judgement- meaning you must act on faith alone. Take a shot at your best hunch.

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That is not to deny the existential terror which precedes this action. The leap of faith calls is forced upon all of humanity- with great Fear & Trembling. Whether you like it or not the leap of faith beckons you into the abyss. Neglect to act, and your hand is forced. your hand. That beyond knowledge. That beyond which we could conceive. Faith is not blind. Faith is courage in the face of crisis. The darkness which presents itself to you; masked through betrayal, death, and arbitrary malevolence & pain.

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you do not cling to rationality, you use it to face existence. You cling to faith and other fantasies. Grow up, throw away your skydaddy, and join humanity on earth.

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Johann Georg Hamann was a big influence on Kierkegaard and his anti-enlightenment stance. Hamann even influenced Kierkegaard's use of pseudonyms in his work

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2:48 “Truth _is_ subjectivity.” Which _is_ ex-centric according to psychoanalysis.

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If choosing ethics or aesthetics is a choice between red and black at the roulette wheel, then choosing a particular religion is like choosing a particular number at the roulette wheel.

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choosing a religion is more like choosing which version of bath salts you want to try.

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This is tremendous. So right for me right now. I see Kierkergaard as more of a prophet to me and this present age. Athens or Jerusalem.

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24:38 Rick Roderick echoes Kierkegaard here in his oeuvre, _The Self Under Siege._ That the failure of Orwell’s vision of a boot stomping on a human face forever is in the idea that there very well may not even be human faces as such in the future-that the self faces being extinguished in the Nietzschean “last man” and his slavish, narrow cosmos of nihilistic morbidity.

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To believe that within the multi-verse, there is a world in which Nietzsche responded to Kierkegaard. Imagine the written correspondence between the two, either in letters or books. How fruitful Western philosophy would’ve been if these two men were given a chance to have discourse

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Nietzsche was meaning to read Kierkegaard before he died too. Nietzsche would have hated Kierkegaard for how committed he was to Christianity and blindly following the morality of it. But Nietzsche probably would have enjoyed Kierkegaard's style.

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@@Tehz1359 I believe that Nietzsche would have more than respected Kierkegaard as Kierkegaard pushed humanity to choose either/or and not to ride the middle line. Nietzsche choose a side and thus, I believe both philosophers would respect each other. Also Nietzsche would grasp Kierkegaard’s irony in ways that the vast majority of people, including elite geniuses, would miss. They might not have been brothers, but they might have an odd relationship like the star jock befriending the uber geek in history class.

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It sounds to me like they both wanted an ideal to strive for. One in the Superman and the other in the knight of faith. Which don’t sound too far off and I can see a conversation coming in.

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@@xalian17 probably would have been a relationship somewhat similar to that of GK Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw

[@pearz420]

The many-worlds metaphysic is the kind of insipid idea I think both of them would cringe and laugh at. That's my meta.

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Rest in Peace Prof.

[@Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 41:38

[@ianm1462]

14:20 - it’s telling that the childless virgin Kierkegaard thought the Abraham story is something to be admired.

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[@cinnamon4605]

"That Individual"

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Great video

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Kierkegaard is my Spirit Animal.

[@tianac.6730]

Thank you for this recording! My questions are, what is Kierkegaard's most pantheistic fruition movement he campaigned for? Must one always have leaps of faith to be a Nietzsche-inspired believer? Why are leaps of faith considered necessary to retain civil liberties and democracy? What is the most theistic form of computation-inspired philosophies according to Kierkegaard? Why are the fruits of faith considered superior to the fruits of mere justified belief? Did Kierkegaard believe Nietzsche's Super-Human philosophy ought to be the bedrock of fruition of idealism? What does it take to transcend post-post modernist regalia according to Kierkegaard? What is the sacrosanct torpidity of the geometries of idealistic labour according to a Marxist-Leninist reading of Kierkegaard? Finally, did Kierkegaard ever reject leaps of faith and instead embraced logical positivist dogmas? Did Kierkegaard consider himself a noble chariot of impressionistic idealism?

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Faith is something I am not capable of understanding

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[@Laocoon283]

I recently learned that it is actually impossible to think both rationally and empatheticly simaltaenously because the brain has to suppress one in order to activate the other. There was a recent study that showed this I don't remember what it was called though. So what he was saying about choosing one or the other is true but only in a transitory sense. Imo you need to rationalize in certain instances and empathize in other. As always it's a matter of harmony not an either or mentality.

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Edit: harmony not an either or mentality

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Now I can read Soren Kierkegaard

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Excellent!

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[@JamesCKuo]

27:58 note to self

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Well done 😊

[@quinceyprickett9654]

I wonder what Kierkegaard would retort to "Abraham reasoned" that God could raise the dead when sacrificing Isaac. Hebrews 11:19 shows a fusion of faith and reason that Kierkegaard seems to loathe.

[@pamelawest2523]

It is a faith with reason, but also a relationship. Abraham had a relationship with Yahweh, and he knew "God would provide." Abraham knew God would not break the Covenant He made with him; how could he do that, for if He did, He would not be God. Think about Isacc's reaction? He follows Abraham up the mountain obedient, even getting on the alter, just the way Abraham is obedient to Yahweh's command. Why? Isacc has a relationship with his father; he trusts his father will not harm him, or has a reason for doing what he is doing. It is a faith, based on reason and relationship.

[@Damascene749]

I think what Kiekegaard was hinting at wasn’t that you can’t use reason or that reason isn’t beneficial, but that the thinkers his time gave epistemic primacy to reason itself arbitrarily. Remember, Paul says only the fool is the one who rejects God, so the problem isn’t really reason but mans tendency today and in Kiekegaards time to use reason in every turn. Even the religious people were trying to reconcile this problem. Our reasoning skills are not perfect due to the fall of man in the garden of Eden.

[@pearz420]

I imagine he would say that Abraham's reason was ultimately futile. He would be right.

[@skaz1504]

Fascinating lecture. I find absurdism and existentialism increasingly relevant schools of thought.

[@lasyr5579]

cracks me up that he gave himself bad reviews. i'm not a christian but i can't help but admire the man.

[@leesimmons12]

27:32 - Wow! Kierkegaard predicted Facebook and Twitter!

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I came here to make the same obsevation!

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And me on youtube. Right now

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[@ahumblemerchant241]

33:25 This is my only criticism and it has to do with Kierkegaard's perspective on the issue of Sola Fide (Justification by Faith Alone). In "For Self-Examination", one of Kierkegaard's "purely" religious works, makes his respect for Luther quite clear and shows a nuance in his pattern of thought. "Infinite humiliation and grace, and then a striving born of gratitude--that is Christianity." The ideal, that is, Christ, must not be watered down in the slightest, it is a biting indictment of the whole world, you must not sugar-coat it or weaken the dosage of the medicine in front of you. But then you should stop, and realizing the magnitude of the ideal, stand humiliated. It is then, once you have realized this insurmountable ideal you can't achieve and stand humiliated in front of it, then you receive grace (justification), and *as a result* (for Kierkegaard believed human works were like filthy rags, they couldn't justify you in the slightest) people strive for the ideal out of gratitude, not to merit or earn justification. As Kierkegaard himself put it (I believe in "Purity of Heart" though I could be mistaken), his works did not put him one inch closer to the Absolute, but rather made him realize more and more how much he was distant from the ideal. Kierkegaard was moreso criticizing the idea of faith as an intellectual idea that had no suffering to it, and even used Luther as an example of someone who actually had faith and how much it pained him. In a word, faith that obeys the command. "By faith Abraham..." offered up his son Isaac, that proved Abraham had justifying faith, but the work itself didn't justify Abraham. But this is more of a categorical distinction, Kierkegaard is certainly very rigorous to his approach of works and his emphasis on them is bespoke in For Self-Examination as well as Judge For Yourself.

[@cinnamon4605]

"Melancholy men have the best sense of humor"

[@cristianchelariu1707]

Made me think of Robin Williams…

[@cinnamon4605]

@@cristianchelariu1707 Yep. Couldn't agree more.

[@stringfellowbalk2654]

Cripes.

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Kierkegaard was "That Individual."

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Hope later there can be transcripts

[@johnlively7174]

Was it Kierkegaard or Dick Van Patton who said, "If you label me, you negate me."

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What is that intro music? It's so nice

[@DaddyLagLegs]

27:42 Damn. He was right in spades about this!

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The aesthetic reading of the Bible, well that’s going to be thought for Peterson..

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