By Edward F. Mooney
Tracing a course via Kierkegaard's writings, this ebook brings the reader into shut touch with the texts and reasons of this striking nineteenth century Danish author and philosopher. Kierkegaard writes in a few voices and registers: as a pointy observer and critic of Danish tradition, or as an ethical psychologist, and as a author involved to rouse the non secular lifestyle of Socrates, Abraham, or a Christian exemplar. In constructing those topics, Mooney sketches Kierkegaard's Socratic vocation, supplies a detailed examining of numerous imperative texts, and strains 'The moral chic' as a recurrent subject matter. He unfolds an affirmative dating among philosophy and theology and the prospects for a religiousness that defies dogmatic creeds, secular chauvinisms, and restrictive philosophies.
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