Concrete and Otherworldly: Reading Kierkegaard's Works of Love alongside Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Here I argue that much of the confusion surrounding the status of material aid to the neighbor in Kierkegaard's Works of Love is cleared up once one sees the text as participating in a movement that has a fundamentally Hegelian substructure: from Moralität in Upbuilding Discourses in Various Sp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Modern theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-41 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts
/ Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855, Kjerlighedens gjerninger
/ Love of neighbor
/ Moral act
/ Morality
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history NCB Personal ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Here I argue that much of the confusion surrounding the status of material aid to the neighbor in Kierkegaard's Works of Love is cleared up once one sees the text as participating in a movement that has a fundamentally Hegelian substructure: from Moralität in Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits to Sittlichkeit in Works of Love. As might be expected, Kierkegaard takes this Hegelian structure in a very different direction than the Hegel of Philosophy of Right-a direction best described as an Augustinian ethic that is both concrete and otherworldly. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12368 |