Reasonableness of Faith: A Study of Kierkegaard’s "Philosophical Fragments" (American University Studies)

In __Reasonableness of Faith__ Tony Kim gives an account of the nature of the relationship between faith and reason through a study of Søren Kierkegaard’s __Philosophical Fragments__, which was published under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. The relationship between faith and reason is problematized by the fact that these ideas essentially occupy different realms of human thought. Kim argues that Climacus contends that there is a historical relation between God and human beings. Table of Contents Chapter I: Reading Philosophical Fragments 1 The General Problem of Faith and Reason in the Philosophical Fragments 1 The Importance of Kierkegaard in Accounting for Faith and Reason 3 The Intention behind Fragments 5 The Nature of Each Sub-Problem Addressed in the Fragments 7 On Kierkegaard’s Pseudonyms 13 Chapter II: The Truth and the Ideal 19 The General Problem of Faith and Reason in the Philosophical Fragments 19 The Indemonstrability of God: The Case of Spinoza 23 Religious Faith as Proof of God’s Existence 30 The Subjective in Climacus 32 An Analysis of the Climacean Transcendental Critique in Fragments 36 Summary of the Differences between Husserl and Climacus 45 Chapter III: The Absolute Paradox 51 The Paradox of God’s Appearance in the World 51 The Objectivity of the Paradox 56 The Empirical and Ideal Dialectic in Philosophy 58 Chapter IV: Existence and Absolute Knowledge 67 Climacus and the Case of Hegelian Philosophy 67 Hegel’s Absolute Idealism: Looking into Its Epistemological Tenets and Metaphysical Implications 70 The Problem of Hegelian Philosophy’s Elimination of the Transcendent 75 Summary 80 Chapter V: The Relation between Faith and Reason 85 The Distinction between Faith (Eternal) and Reason (Historical) 85 “Coming into Existence” 86 Religious Faith versus Historical Belief 90 Objectivity and Subjectivity in Climacus 93 The Concept of the “Offense” 95 The “Moment” and the “Condition” 100 Passion, Existence, and Faith 102 The Leap 109 The Will 116 Chapter VI: Summary and Conclusions 129 Bibliography 139 Index 145 Gives an account of the nature of the relationship between faith and reason through a study of Soren Kierkegaard's "Philosophical Fragments", which was published under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus.