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  • 10 - The epistemology of the Postscript

  • Edited by Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College
  • Book:
    Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'
    Published online:
    04 August 2010
    Print publication:
    29 July 2010, pp 190-203

  • Summary

    The chapter provides a great deal of insight into Søren Kierkegaard's epistemology of the Concluding Unscientific Postscript. It focuses on the concept of truth in the Postscript. The chapter shows that one of the most important distinctions Kierkegaard makes between subjective and objective truth is obscured in English translations, which use the single word "approximation" to render two very different Danish terms: Approximation and Tilnærmelse. Truth, according to Kierkegaard, is an agreement between thought and being. Such agreement can be established in two ways: by making thought conform to being and by making being conform to thought. The truth is a property of actuality rather than of mental representations which is argued with ethics and religion by Kierkegaard. Thus, ethical and religious truth is an agreement between the ideality of ethical and religious prescriptions and the actuality of the individual's existence.

  • 4 - From the garden of the dead: Climacus on interpersonal inwardness

  • Edited by Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College
  • Book:
    Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'
    Published online:
    04 August 2010
    Print publication:
    29 July 2010, pp 64-86

  • Summary

    Johannes Climacus lingers in "the garden of the dead", a cemetery, for the dead to speak, awaiting whatever death speaks to him. He overhears a graveside address on how death disrupts the living, puts the dead under judgment, and warns the living to heed their lives. Stepping beyond the garden of death and a grief-filled outpouring, one might consider what is meant by the expression "truth is subjectivity", or by "indirect communication". Concluding Unscientific Postscript can depict faith or "subjective truth" abstractly as "the objective uncertainty" held in "the most passionate inwardness. The graveyard intimates this restless inwardness. Climacus notes that inwardness is both a self's relation to itself and also its outward relation to others. To lose inwardness is to exemplify "an unnatural form of interpersonal association". The teacher's inwardness, Climacus reports, "is a respect for the learner precisely as one having inwardness in himself".