Kierkegaard on the Ethical Imagination

Despite Kierkegaard's continual awareness of the dangers of the imagination, he nevertheless redeems the imagination by placing it at the heart of the ethical and religious life. The aim of this paper is to focus on the shape of these positive ways of "being imaginative" in the ethica...

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Main Author: Gouwens, David J. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1982
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1982, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 204-220
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