What is it to Doubt? (1 of 2)

from Johannes Climacus by Soren Kierkegaard

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[RazorBoy55]

I am surprised you don't include "Waking Life" among your favorite movies. Have you seen it?

Oh and cool haircut.

[redliterocket4]

I do really like that movie. Don't know why I forgot to add it.

[fapplemstar]

I have been wondering if S.K. had multiple personality disorder... If anything he certainly had a knack for taking on an "alter ego" or pretending to. I've not studied him much though... so I'm just making an uneducated speculation, nothing more...

[redliterocket4]

don't you think we all have multiple personalities? don't different people bring out different aspects of your self?

[jsbond008]

A MSTRPCE in the exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical.

[Nipponkoku]

Wonderful pronunciation of his name...

[demrings]

This is amazing. I had a hard time following the second part, but the following quote is more than enough for me to order the book right away:

"Immediacy is reality. Language is ideality. Consciousness is contradiction. The moment I make a statement about reality, contradiction is present, for what I say is ideality."

Thanks a lot for this tip.

[MikeLtheSoulChild]

But that is an incomplete way to understand his philosophy, you gotta see each pseudonym as one person, which really shows Kierkegaards brilliance that he was able to see and understand things from different viewpoints than his own!

[MikeLtheSoulChild]

Søren Kierkegaard didn't suffer from a multiple personality disorder. He wrote in pseudonyms cause it allowed him to present contradictory viewpoints and still be credible. A lot of his critics misunderstood that and saw his philosophy as a whole, as the result of one person claiming he made no sense because he was contradicting himself in different works.

[Censeo]

My brain hurts... lol

Nah, but really. Interesting viewpoint, and my mind is contemplaiting, questioning, considering so much that I simply state this. Doubt is real in a way, so in that sense doubt itself is in the realm of reality. Could you imagine reality without subject-object interaction? I have trouble with that!

[SOCRATES012]

Perhaps the disorder is in those of us that judge ourselves by our differences instead of understanding them and celebrating them whenever they help us to see a different aspect of life.

[fapplemstar]

yes, but have you ever seen anyone with the actual disorder... It is far more dramatic and somewhat creepy.

I was mostly kidding above, I get the "different sides of me" concept. Ironically enough, my daughters pre-school class just covered this topic (and I'm not kidding). ;o)