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Chapter 9 examines different readings of the notorious thesis that “subjectivity, inwardness, is truth” in Concluding Unscientific Postscript. It is argued that, instead of involving objectionable subjectivism, subjective truth involves an original, adverbial theory of truth that is relatively unexplored. Specifically, subjective truth concerns living truly by being wholehearted (as suggested by Daniel Watts). In addition, it is closely associated with subjective, practical justifications of religious belief found in pragmatism (practical nonevidentialism) concerning religious belief. However, these subjective justifications of belief need not involve subjectivism or fideism, since belief could be supported by practical reasons that are objective by holding even if they are not subjectively recognized. Indeed, Concluding Unscientific Postscript seems to presuppose objective truth and some form of metaphysical and metaethical realism. For Kierkegaard, there are objective, formal constraints on selfhood that prevent relativism and subjectivism. Specifically, wholehearted selfhood, which is to be true to oneself, requires full moral commitment and faith, hope, and charity.
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