Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of LoveOxford University Press, 2001 M06 7 - 336 páginas Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love (1847), a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbor, has often been condemned by critics. Here, Ferreira seeks to rehabilitate Works of Love as one of Kierkegaard's most important works. He shows that Kierkegaard's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in contemporary ethics, including impartiality, duty, equality, mutuality, reciprocity, self-love, sympathy, and sacrifice. Ferreira also argues that Works of Love bears on issues peculiar to a religious ethic, such as the role of God as "middle term," and the possibility of preserving the aesthetic dimensions of love in a religious ethic of relation. |
Contenido
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2 Loves LawObligation | 29 |
3 Loves LawEquality | 43 |
4 Loves LawKinship | 53 |
5 Loves LaborAction | 65 |
6 Loves LaborConscience | 84 |
7 Loves Vision | 99 |
12 Loves Faithfulness | 179 |
13 Loves Mercifulness | 188 |
14 Loves Delight in Reconciliation | 200 |
15 Loves Asymmetry | 209 |
16 Loves Transparency | 228 |
17 Loves Repetition | 240 |
Conclusion | 255 |
Table of Contents of Works of Love | 263 |
8 Loves Debt | 117 |
9 Loves Venture | 137 |
10 Loves Gift | 151 |
11 Loves Forgiveness | 169 |
Notes | 265 |
Bibliography | 301 |
Index | 311 |
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Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love M. Jamie Ferreira Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love M. Jamie Ferreira Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love M. Jamie Ferreira Sin vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 103 - I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Página 107 - I can respond only to the one (or to the One), that is, to the other, by sacrificing that one to the other.
Página 107 - By preferring my work, simply by giving it my time and attention, by preferring my activity as a citizen or as a professorial and professional philosopher, writing and speaking here in a public language, French in my case, I am perhaps fulfilling my duty. But I am sacrificing and betraying at every moment all my other obligations...
Página 142 - Scepticism, then, is not avoidance of option; it is option of a certain particular kind of risk. Better risk loss of truth than chance of error — that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field. To preach scepticism to us as a duty until "sufficient evidence...
Página 40 - My new divine command theory of the nature of ethical wrongness, then, is that ethical wrongness is (ie, is identical with) the property of being contrary to the commands of a loving God. I regard this as a metaphysically necessary, but not an analytic or a priori truth. Because it is not a conceptual analysis, this claim is not relative to a religious subcommunity of the larger linguistic community.
Página 57 - The divine authority of the Gospel does not speak to one person about another, does not speak to you, my listener, about me, or to me about you — no, when the Gospel speaks, it speaks to the single individual. It does not speak about us human beings, you and me, but speaks to us human beings, to you and me.
Página 48 - The Other becomes my neighbour precisely through the way the face summons me, calls for me, begs for me, and in so doing recalls my responsibility, and calls me into question.
Página 290 - It is easy enough to give bread to the starving, money to the needy or clothes to the naked. It is not surprising that a person does these things. 'What is surprising', as Simone Weil says, 'is that he should be capable of doing so with so different a gesture from that with which we buy an object. Almsgiving when it is not supernatural is like a sort of purchase. It buys the sufferer
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Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard Michelle Kosch Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
Living Christianly: Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Christian Existence Sylvia Walsh Vista previa limitada - 2010 |