absolute, the, 10; absolute relation to, 214; definition of, 309; beginning, 150–51, 155–56; difference, 44–46; fact, 99–100; freedom as, 233; knowledge, 141; paradox, 37–48, 59, 61–62, 65–66, 95–98, 103–04, 107, 194–95; as spirit, 149; teacher, 215
Absolute Being, 327
absolute method, 78; and Hegel, 200–09, 306; and the historical, 201–05; and the individual, 201–05
Absolute Mind: and history, 306
absolute spirit, 149
abstract, the, abstraction: and the concrete, 202–05, 207–09; and doubt, 249; ideal, 331
absurd, the, 52, 104, 221, 294, 300; in Fragments, 221
abyss, 98
accessorium, 335
Achilles, 281
actual, the, actuality, 74, 124–25, 182, 210, 300; and being, 74; and consciousness, 168; and ideality, 257; and immediacy, 168, 255; and mediacy, 168; and possibility, 254, 299; and potency, 344; and reality, 331; and repetition, 171–72; spatial, 297–98; temporal, 297–98; and truth, 253
Adresseavisen, 226
Advertiser, see Adresseavisen
Aeacus, 341
Aenesidemus, 313, 345–46; ten bases for doubting, 346
Afgrund, 317
Agnonides, 249
Ajax, 342
Alcibiades, 24, 189, 215, 283, 285–86, 289, 296
Alexandrians, 187
algebraic, the, 276; and writing, 91
analogy: camel, 185; child and freedom, 16; child’s toy, 16, 188; coachman, 12; dog, 136; fish, 163; food, xxi–xxii; fox, 155; geese, 148; horse, 286; lily, 29; London road, 64; maiden and king, 26–30; midwife, 278–79; musician, 286; orchestra, 203, 208; peasant’s directions, 248; rower, 159; sailor, 163; shark, 122; spider, 184; tree and seed, 255
Anaxagoras, 330
Anaxarchus, 146
animal: consciousness of, 252
Anselm, 190–91; Proslogium, 291
Apollo, 304–05
Apollonius of Tyana, 97, 232, 246, 247, 316
Arendt, Hannah, The Human Condition, xxii
Aristodemus, 292
Aristophanes, 282
Aristotle, ix, x, 6, 17, 24, 74, 75, 80, 83, 108–09, 145, 167, 184, 205, 211, 212, 236, 254, 261, 266, 283, 298, 303–04, 310, 339; definition of sophistry, 184; Aristoteles graece, 275; The Constitution of Athens, 274–75; De Anima, ix, 338; On Interpretation, 299; Metaphysics, 283, 310, 319, 330, 344; Nicomachean Ethics, 280, 337; Physics, 298; Politics, 323; Posterior Analytics, 299; Rhetoric, 221, 340; On Sophistic Fallacies, 275; Works, 274
Arv, 152
ascent: bringing about unity, 31; of Eros, 31
atheist, 191–92
Atropos, 317
attic lodger, 184
Augustine, 280, 294; The City of God, 294
authority, 245; mutiny against, 332
autopathy, 23
autopsy of faith, 70, 102, 198, 215
Baader, Benedict Franz Xaver von, 278, 310, 341; Fermenta Cognitionis, 309, 310
barber(s): in Greece, 106, 318
Baur, Bruno, 167, 251; Zeitschrift für spekulative Theologie, 330
Bayle, M., 304; Dictionary, 304
beauty, beauties, 285; of body, 284–85; of soul, 285
Beck, Andreas Frederik, Neues Repertorium für die theologische Literatur und Kirchliche Statistik, xx, 340
Becker, Karl Friedrich, Verdenshistorie, 275
becoming, 280, 325–26; and belief, 212
beginning, 150–51, 155–56; absolute, 149; of doubt, 262; of the ethical, doubt as, 265; objective, of philosophy, 149; philosopher, 138; of philosophy, 144–56, 239–66, 311; of philosophy, wonder as, 240; subjective, of philosophy, 149–50, 153; of wisdom, doubt as, 323–24
being, 74–75, 87, 280, 281, 290, 297–98, 302, 336; actual, 74; and essence, 87; factual, 41–42; ideal, 41–42; and non-being, 329, 339; and perfection, 41, 290; pure, 328. See also non-being
belief, 81–86, 212, 242, 311; and becoming, 212; as act of freedom, 83; and doubt, 84–85; as expression of will, 83; in the god, 214; and the historical, 83–86
“Better well hanged than ill wed,” 3, 274
Beundring, 310
Bible, New Testament, 105, 111
Bible, New Testament:
I Corinthians 1:23, 52, 102; 2:7–9, 109; 2:9, 36; 9:13, 7; 13:12, 68
II Corinthians 10:5, 232
Ephesians 5:19, 318
John 2:4, 33; 3:1–15, 57–58; 4:34, 57; 6:12, 60; 8:32, 31; 8:34, 17; 8:44, 51; 16:7, 105; 16:17, 216; 16:21, 132; 19:5, 32; 19:30, 106; 21:6, 192; 21:25, 106
I John 1:1, 65
Luke 2:7, 58; 2:35, 34; 5:4, 192; 7:25, 56; 7:37–38, 33; 9:58, 32; 10:39–42, 33; 11:27–28, 66; 13:26, 67, 198; 13:27, 67–68; 15:7, 30; 24:29, 57
Mark 11:31, 39
Matthew 4:2, 32; 4:4, 60; 4:6, 32; 4:10, 33; 4:24, 32; 4:25, 57; 6:25–26, 56; 6:26, 45; 6:28, 57; 6:29, 29; 7:2, 289; 8:20, 56; 8:22, 56; 9:17, 34; 9:23, 28; 9:36, 32; 12:49, 57; 16:23, 33; 22:19–21, 28; 23:4, 235; 26:38, 34; 26:39, 34; 26:53, 56; 27:24, 60; 27:48, 34
II Peter 3:8, 29
Philippians 2:7–8, 56; 2:8, 32; 3:13–14, 19
I Timothy 4:12, 115
Bible, Old Testament, 315
Bible, Old Testament:
Exodus 19:16–19, 34–35; 33:20, 30, 284
Psalms 14:1, 43; 53:2, 43; 90:4, 29; 91:11–12, 32
birth, 31; of the god, 58–59; and rebirth, 20–22, 97
blindman’s buff, 297
Bluebeard, 156
body: beauties of, 284–85; and soul, 278–79
Böehme, Jacob, 324–25
Boethius, 182; The Consolation of Philosophy, 334
bondage: and freedom, 15, 16–17
Boreas, 287
Brandt, Frithiof, Kierkegaard og Pengene, xix
Callicles, 297
Cambyses, 296–97
camel, see analogy, camel
Caron, Pierre-Augustin (Beaumarchais), Le Mariage de Figaro, 335
Carpocrates of Alexandria, 344
Cartesian devil, 291
Cartesian method, ix
catachumens, 157–58
categories: of consciousness, 169; of reflection, 169–70
Catholicism, 164
cause: final, 283; first, 75, 76, 88, 283; freely acting, 75, 76, 88
centaur, 287
certainty: and doubt, 254; and faith, 95; and immediacy, 91–92; of knowledge, 199
Ceylon: nature sounds of, 108
change, 73, 209–11; dialectic of, 77
child: consciousness of, 167; and mother, 219. See also analogy, child and freedom; analogy, child’s toy
Christ, xviii, 219, 246; age of, ix; baptism of, ix; death of, 294; departure of, 189, 216; dual nature of, 139–40; suffering of, 154, 195, 196; and work, 193
Christendom: and Christianity, 220
Christian, Christianity, xviii, xx, xxi, 109–10, 134–35, 217, 256, 317; and Christendom, 220; and doubt, 332; faith, 222; and the historical, 109–10, 186–87; and historical truth, 181–82; and philosophy, 182–83, 220; as truth, xxi
Chrysippus, 43, 76, 191, 233, 291, 303, 304, 305, 335
Cicero, 304–05; De Fato, 304; Opera, 274; Philippics, 274
Cineas, 296
coachman, see analogy, coachman
cognition: and deception, 261, 266; and doubt, 250, 256, 260, 261, 262; and error, 82–83
collision: and consciousness, 256; of ideality and actuality, 170–72; of understanding, 196
coming into existence, 73–78, 85–88, 209–11, 280; apprehension of, 81–85; and belief, 81–86; dialectic of, 87; and freedom, 75, 211; and the historical, 75–76; illusiveness of, 81–85; and necessity, 75, 209–11; of the past, 79
Commandment, First, x
comparison: of followers, 98–99
concept: of God, 41
concrete, the, 331; and abstraction, 202–05, 207–09
condition: for acquiring truth, 14–19, 31, 56, 59, 62–64, 65, 69–70, 87, 93, 100, 103, 106–07, 187, 197, 198, 214–15
consciousness, 166–72, 255, 301, 331–32; and actuality, 168; of animal, 252; categories of, 169; of child, 167; and collision, 256; and contradiction, 170–71, 258; duplexity of, 255; eternal, 1, 58–59; eternal, and history, 182, 197; existence of, 257; and experience, 168; of freedom, 315; and ideality, 168; and interest, 170; nature of, 167, 255, 331–32; and reality, 256; as relation, 169–70, 171; and reflection, 169–70, 257; and pre-supposition of reflection, 257; and self, 140, 169, 258; of sin, 51, 93, 111, 214
consequences of sin, 280
consistency, 146
construction, 308; theory, 79, 211, 307–08. See also imaginary construction
contemporaneity: dialectic of, 90–91; dialectic of, in Fragments, 225–26; and immediacy, 69–70, 104–06
contemporary, the, 59–62, 66, 69–70, 85, 93, 100, 105–06, 108, 198, 199; follower, 55–71, 89–90, 91, 197; generation, 104–05, 107–08; immediate, 87, 225–26; and later follower, 216; and later generation, 102–03; learner, 59, 63; and the non-contemporary, 66–68, 104–05, 213, 214; as untruth, 70
contradiction, 25, 86, 168, 319, 331, 332; and consciousness, 170–71, 258; duplexity of, 168; of existence, 187; and indifference, 259; principle of, 108–09, 319–20, 331
conversion, 18
Copenhagen, 6, 275, 321; University of, 344
Corinth, 6
Corsair, The, xix
creation: of man, 292
criterion of truth, 38
Cybele, 283
dancing, 7–8
Daub, Carl, 80; Zeitschrift für spekulative Theologie, 309
death, 316, 341–42; of Christ, 294; Epicurus’ view of, 147; and life, 330–31; of Socrates, 278
deception: and cognition, 261, 266; and experience, 261; and ideas, 261; and sensation, 261
Deer Park, 275
definition: of absolute, 309; of doubt, 261–62; of existence, 302–03; of God, 283; of ignorance, 260–61; of nature, 298; of sin, 15; of uncertainty, 261–62
degree, to a, 11
deliverer, 17, 187; teacher as, 17
Delphi, 287
demonstration: of existence, 39–44, 190; of existence of God, 190–92, 193; of immortality, 190–91; from works, 40–44
de omnibus dubitandum est, ix, 131, 144, 157, 159, 161, 240, 259, 322–23, 325
depression: of Johannes Climacus’s father, 124
Descartes, René, x, xii, xiv, xxii, 83, 135, 139, 211–12, 235, 238, 246, 261, 264, 266, 322–25; and action, 266; and doubt, 322–23; on error, 266; and knowledge of God, 232–33; ontological argument, 190–91; and self-knowledge, 232–33; Discourse on Method, 323; Meditations on First Philosophy, xii, 281, 323, 342; Opera, 281; The Passions of the Soul, 310; Principles of Philosophy, 338–39, 343
descent: bringing about unity, 31
destiny: of soul, 273
devil, Cartesian, 291
dialectic, dialectical, the, 41, 84–85, 93, 108, 121–23, 130, 237; of change, 77; of coming into existence, 87; of contemporaneity, 90–91, 225–26; of contemporaneity in Fragments, 225–26; of contradictories in existence, 289; of existence, 87; in Fragments, 223, 225; Hamlet, 41; of the historical, 76; of the moment, 51–52; nature of reason, 275–76; paradoxical, 166; in Postscript, 225; and Socrates, 231–32; of truth, 254
Diana, temple of, 337
difference, different, the, 44–46, 302–03; absolute, 44–46; qualitative, 41–46, 54, 193, 194–95
digte, 286
Diogenes Laertius, 11, 83, 167, 261, 266; Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 279, 312, 313, 316, 327, 328, 330, 344, 345, 346
Diogenes of Sinope, 6, 275, 328
Dion, 131–32
Dionysius, 131–32
Diotima, 284–85
Discipel, 281
discontinuity, 154; and evil, 245; and the negative, 245
disinterested knowledge, 170, 258; and doubt, 170
divine, the, divinity: knowledge of, 93; providence, 302–03
dog, see analogy, dog
dogmatics, 217
Don juan, xi
Don Quixote, 218
doubt, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xviii, xxii, 82, 115, 132–59, 164, 166–72, 212, 231–66, 345; and abstraction, 249; accidental or necessary, 136–37; beginning of, 262; as beginning of the ethical, 265; as beginning of wisdom, 323–24; and belief, 84–85; and certainty, 254; and Christianity, 332; and cognition, 250, 256, 260, 261, 262; definition of, 261–62; and Descartes, 322–23; and disinterested knowledge, 170; and the ethical, 265; etymology of, 169–70; and faith, 256; and freedom, 82, 265; Hegelian, 82; through ideality, 252–53; and ignorance, 262; inquiring, 265; and interest, 258; and Johannes Climacus, 263; as life task, 262; and modern philosophy, 241; objective, 153; and philosophy, 132–59, 244, 262; possibility of, 255–56; presence of, 251; and resolution, 84–85; retiring, 265; state of, 250; stopping of, 262; ten bases for, 346; and truth, 261; and two, 258; and uncertainty, 259, 262; and will, 233–34, 250, 256, 259, 262
duplexity: of consciousness, 255; of contradiction, 168; of language, 251; of the past, 79
Dyrehavstid, 275
Egypt, 296. See also philosophers, Egyptian
emanation, eternal, 10
Emmaus, road to, 198
emotion, 293
enchainement, 339
Engelstoft, Christian Thorning, Theologisk Tidsskrift, Ny Række, 222–23, 341
Ephesus, 337
Epicurus, 147, 261, 266, 303–04; on death, 95, 147; The Canon, 345; Sovran Maxims, 345
Erdmann, Johann Eduard, 167
Erigena, John Scotus, 277–78
Eros, ascent of, 31
erotic love, see love, erotic
error, 266, 338–39; and cognition, 82–83; and judgment, 212; and perception, 212; and will, 83, 342–43
essence, the essential, 73–75, 290–91; and being, 87; and existence, 40–42; Hegel’s dialectic of, 182; and necessity, 86; truth, 152
esthetics, x
eternality, eternity, the eternal, 13, 64, 79, 139–42, 151, 171–72, 188, 280; consciousness, 1, 58–59; consciousness, and history, 182, 197; emanating, 10; fact, 99; of God, 280, 297–98; happiness, 1; and the historical, 62; and history, 76; philosophy, 147–48, 246, 248; resolution, 25; truth, 62, 290–91
ethics, ethical, the, x, 256; and doubt, 265; doubt as beginning of, 265; and the individual, 207; possibility of, 298; and repentance, 210; thesis, 151–53, 245; truth, 151–52
etymology: of doubt, 169–70
Euclid, Elements, 339
eulogy, 66
Euthydemus, 276
evil, 154, 316; and discontinuity, 245; and freedom, 154; and good, 316; pre-existence of, 181
exception: Johannes Climacus as, 130, 239
existence, xviii, 10, 22, 40–41, 170, 256, 279, 280, 289–93, 297–98, 335–36; coming into, 73–78, 85–88, 209–11, 280; contradictions of, 187; definition of, 302–03; demonstration of, 39–44, 190; dialectic of, 87; and essence, 40–42; of the god, 39–44, 87; of God, 188, 192, 222, 280, 290–91, 297–98, 304; nature of, 166–72; pain of, 253; of the past, 79. See also coming into existence; non-existence; post-existence; pre-existence
existential, the, 227
experience: and consciousness, 168; and deception, 261; as teacher, 158
externality, the external: of God, 280, 297–98; ideas, 279; form of teacher, 65
fact, the: absolute, 99–100; eternal, 99; faith as, 96; historical, 99–100, 103–04; truth of, 273–74
factual, the, factuality, xxx; and being, 41–42
faith, 59, 62, 65–66, 70, 71, 87, 93–94, 97, 99, 102–04, 107–08, 111, 197, 240, 286, 311, 314, 339; autopsy of, 70, 102, 198, 215; Christian, 222; and doubt, 256; eminent sense of, 87–88; and existence of God, 87; as fact, 96; as happy passion, 54; historical fact as object of, 100; and the historical, 88; and history, 99; and immediacy, 216; and immediate certainty, 95; of Johannes Climacus, x; of Søren Kierkegaard, x; and naturalization, 95–98, 213; object of, 62, 100–01, 104, 213, 222; ordinary sense of, 81, 87–88; as paradox, 65–66; as passion, 92; power of, 34; and probability, 94; and Socrates, 87; status of, 214; teacher as object of, 62; and will, 62–63; as wonder, 65–66
Faust, xii
Faustian Doubter, xii
feeling(s), 252; and will, 259
Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas, 217, 218; Das Wesen des Christenthums, 340
Fichte, Immanuel Hermann, 227; Sätze zur Vorschule der Theologie, 341
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 233
fifty-drachma course, 185
first cause, see cause, first
first nature: and second nature, 214
first person singular, 227
fish, see analogy, fish fly, existence of, 41–42
“flying arrow,” 17
follower(s), 58–65, 100–01, 105, 158–59, 281; contemporary, 55–71, 89–90, 91, 197; first generation of secondhand, 91–94, 98–99; latest generation of secondhand, 94–98, 99; likeness of, 104–05; at second hand, 58, 89–111, 197, 213, 216; no secondhand, 104–05; as untruth, 65
food, see analogy, food
foreknowledge: and divine providence, 334; and freedom, 334; of God, 334; and necessity, 80. See also knowledge
forgiveness of sin as paradox, 222
form of the servant, see servant, form of
fox, see analogy, fox
Fredericia, 7
Frederiksberg Castle, 321
freedom, 31, 75, 78, 118, 227, 280, 303–04; as absolute, 233; belief as act of, 83; and bondage, 15, 16–17; and coming into existence, 75, 211; consciousness of, 315; and doubt, 82, 265; and evil, 154; and foreknowledge, 334; in God, 317; as illusion, 211; and indetermination, 334; and the past, 79; and responsibility, 15–17; of soul, 304; as superior to thought, 233; and unfreedom, 17. See also analogy, child and freedom
Friday, 147
frontier: the unknown as, 44–45
fullness of time, see time, fullness of future, the, 77, 182, 199, 326; and necessity, 72–78; possibility of, 303
geese, see analogy, geese
generation, 107; contemporary, 104–05, 107–08; latest, 213; of secondhand follower, first, 91–94, 98–99; of secondhand follower, latest, 94–98, 99
German philosophy, 226–27
Gnostics, 344
God, 42, 103, 201, 246, 278, 281, 290, 317; as concept, 41; as creator, 297–98, 310; definition of, 283; demonstration of existence of, 190–92, 193; eternality of, 280, 297–98; existence of, 188, 192, 222, 280, 290–91, 297–98, 304; foreknowledge of, 334; freedom in, 317; and history, 201; knowledge of, 11; providence of, 334; relationship to, 197, 216; Son of, 294; as teacher, 187
god, the, 10, 24–25, 28–29, 32, 34, 36, 39, 42, 45, 57–58, 62–65, 86–87, 92, 100–01, 103, 105–08, 192–95, 197, 214–15; belief in, 214; birth of, 58–59; existence of, 39–44, 87; as human being, 219; Incarnation, 195, 196; knowing, 64, 68–69; knowledge of, 194–95; love for, 216; love from, 28–30; love of, 64; recognizability of, 32–35; as reconciler, 106–07; relationship to, 216; as savior, 195, 196; as servant, 31, 55–56, 64–66, 93, 103–04; as teacher, 15, 28, 47, 55, 57, 111, 195, 196; trust in, 42; as unknown, 39, 44; voice of, 34–35
goddesses of fate, 98
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, “Der Fischer,” 295
going beyond: and Hegel, 247; and Pythagoras, 247; and Socrates, 199; the Socratic, 111
“going to Grandmother’s door,” 248
Goldkalb, Salomon, 6
Gorgias, 292–93
grandmother’s door, 70
Greek, Greeks, the: barber, 106, 318; philosophers, 275; philosophy, ix, 38, 280; skepticism, 38, 82–83, 170–71; Sophists, 167, 288, 292–93; thought, 145; tragedy, 282–83
grief, 33–34
ground, 75, 289, 301, 302–03, 311
Grundtvig, Nicolai Frederik Severin, 218–19, 318
guilt, 34, 188, 194–95; anxieties of, 34; and innocence, 34; of untruth, 31
Hafnia, 321
Hagen, Johan Frederik, Theologisk Tidsskrift, Ny Række, xix, 341
Hamann, Johann Georg, 53, 195, 314; letter to brother, 337; letter to Kant, 337; letter to Lavater, 320
Hamlet dialectic, 41
happiness: eternal, 1. See also Salighed
happy passion: faith as, 54
heaven, 30
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, ix, xvi, 78, 86, 169, 190, 199–209, 217, 231, 238, 243, 246, 247, 258, 262, 264–66, 278, 289; and absolute method, 200–09, 306; dialectic of essence, 182; going beyond, 247; system of philosophy, 321; Beweise für das Daseyn Gottes, 292; Difference between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy, 280; Logic, 299, 302, 319; Encyclopedia, 299, 303, 308, 319, 327; Philosophy of Mind, 308; Philosophy of Nature, 303; History of Philosophy, 281, 282, 301, 311, 322, 324, 336, 343, 344, 346, 347; The Phenomenology of Mind, 246, 324, 327, 331, 332; The Philosophy of History, 306, 314, 316; Science of Logic, 182, 275–76, 279, 289, 299, 302, 305, 306, 307, 311, 314, 319, 325, 336, 337; Werke, 275
Hegelian doubt, see doubt, Hegelian
Heiberg, Johan Ludvig, Kong Salomon og Jörgen Hattemager, 275, 340; Perseus, 306, 327
Herostratus, 337
Hesiod, 342
Hippel, Theodor Gottlieb von, Lebensläufe nach aufsteigender Linie, 163, 329
Hipponicus, son of, 276
Hirsch, Emanuel, xii
historian: as prophet of the past, 309
historical, the, 1, 13, 58, 81, 85, 134–35, 144–46, 214, 218, 219; and absolute method, 201–05; and belief, 83–86; and coming into existence, 75–76; dialectic of, 76; and the eternal, 62; fact, 99–100, 103–04; and faith, 88; knowledge, 59–64, 199; as object of faith, 100; as past, 76; and philosophy, 203–05; truth, 152–53
“Historical costume,” xvii, 185
history: and Absolute Mind, 306; and eternal consciousness, 182, 197; and the eternal, 76; and faith, 99; and God, 201; inner, 298; and nature, 76, 79; and philosophy, 148; philosophy of, 302; and philosophy, 133–34; thesis, 152–53, 241; four phases of world, 306; of world, 317
Holberg, Ludvig, 5; Den Danske Skue-Plads, 274; Den Stundesløse, 96, 316; Erasmus Montanus Eller Rasmus Berg, 192, 318, 336; Hexerie Eller Blind Allarm, 305, 321; Jacob von Tyboe Eller Den stortalende Soldat, 274; Jean de France, 328; Jule-Stue, 321; Mester Gert Westphaler Eller den meget talende Barbeer, 78, 306
horse, see analogy, horse
human being, 11, 13, 18, 28, 32, 35, 38, 45–46, 55, 101–04, 152; the god as, 219; mortality of, 153; as new person, 18; as servant, 56
humanism, 277
human nature, 47
human responsibility, 280
human thought, 191
Hume, David, 314; David Hume über den Glauben, 314; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, xxii; “The Life of David Hume,” xxii; A Treatise of Human Nature, xxii
hypocrite, 52
hypothesis, 13, 17, 22, 89, 101, 109–10. See also Kierkegaard, works cited, Philosophical Fragments, if/then
idea(s), the, 78, 303, 305–06; and deception, 261; external, 279; pure, 279
ideal: abstract, 331
ideality, 124, 168–69, 171–72, 254; and actuality, 257; and being, 41–42; and consciousness, 168; coming through doubt, 252–53; language as, 255; and reality, 251, 256, 331; and truth, 253
identity, 302–03
Identity of Indiscernibles, 344
if/then, xix, 276, 284. See also Kierkegaard, works cited, Philosophical Fragments, if/then
ignorance: definition of, 261–62; and doubt, 262; sin as, 50; of the Socratic, 232
illusion, 253, 254, 255; freedom as, 211
imaginary construction, xviii–xix, 79, 221
imagination: of Johannes Climacus, 121; and thought, 234
immediacy, the immediate, 67–68, 70, 81, 167–68, 279, 311; and actuality, 168, 255; and certainty, 91–92; and contemporaneity, 69–70, 105–06; contemporary, 87, 225–26; and faith, 216; and language, 255; and mediacy, 167–68, 171–72, 252, 260; as reality, 167–68; of religion, 330; of sensation and cognition, 81–85; and the statements, 252; and truth, 167–68, 250–51, 255; and untruth, 167
immortality: demonstration of, 191–92; of soul, 9–10, 188, 277. See also mortality
Incarnation, 193–94, 214; the god as, 195, 196; as paradox, 193–94
Indesluttethed, 27
indetermination: and freedom, 334
Indian philosophers, 157–58
indifference: and contradiction, 259
individual, the, 244; and absolute method, 201–05; and the ethical, 207; and race, 202–03, 207; relation to philosophy, 147–56; relation to truth, 147–56; and sin, 227; and truth, 14
inner history, 298
innocence: and guilt, 34
inquiring doubt, 265
intellect, 211–12
interest, 256, 265; and consciousness, 170; and doubt, 258
intuition, 252
inwardness: as truth, 219
ironist: Socrates as, 111
irony, xii, 220; in Fragments, 220; in Johannes Climacus, 234–35; Socratic, xxii
Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 84; Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an Herrn Moses Mendelssohn, 314; Von den Göttlichen Dingen und ihrer Offenbarung, 314
Jesuit order, 158
Johannes Climacus, 118–72, 231–66, 297–98; and doubt, 263; education of, 123–25, 129, 235; as exception, 130, 239; faith of, x; father of, 120–21, 124–25, 236–37; and father’s depression, 124; on Fragments, xx–xxii; imagination of, 121; and language, 121; life of, 118–25; listening, 121–22, 130, 131, 147, 239; as philosopher, 131–32, 158, 165, 263–64; not a poet, 191–92; pride of, 124; and pure being, 263–64; use of quotation marks, 184; readings, 129–30, 238; soul of, 124; theses of, 131–32; thought of, 118–19, 122, 131–32, 140–41, 147, 161–72, 239; view of life, 125; walking, 120; will of, 141
John the Baptizer, 197
judge: teacher as, 18
judging, 288–89
judgment(s), 301, 311; and error, 212; suspension of, 345
Jugurtha, 5
justice, 293–94
Kant, Immanuel, 231, 238, 264; on existence as an accessorium, 190; letter from Hamann, 337; Critique of Pure Reason, 335
KIERKEGAARD, SØREN AABYE
author’s author, xvi
dissertation, 282
as editor, xvi
education of, 331
faith of, x
journals and papers: Esthetica, x;
Philosophica, x
motifs: Don Juan, xi;
master thief, xi;
Wandering Jew, xi
proposed titles and works: “The Art of Religious Address,” 221, 340;
“God’s Judgment,” 221;
“Letters of a Faustian Doubter,” xii;
“Logical Problems,” 220;
“Philosophical Deliberations,” xii;
Problemata, xi;
“Writing Sampler,” 221
pseudonyms, x, xii–xiii, xvi, 341
Anti-Climacus, x
A.W.A.H. Rosenblad, 221
Constantin Constantius, x
Frater Taciturnus, xix
Johannes Climacus, ix, x, xii–xxii, 220, 221, 222–24, 227, 231–66, 277, 331;
on quotation marks, 184
Nicholas Notabene, 306
Victor Eremita, xvi
Vigilius Haufniensis, xvi
readings: Descartes, 281;
Hegel, 281;
Plato, ix
works cited:
“A First and Last Declaration” (1846), xvi
“The Book on Adler” (1847, not pub.), 222–26
Book on Adler, 293
Christian Discourses (1848), 328
Christ’s Judgment on Official Christianity (1855), xi
Concept of Anxiety (1844), xi, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, 275, 280, 303, 308, 310, 315, 319, 327, 341, 344
Concept of Irony (1841), xviii, 278, 282, 283, 311, 320, 328
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (1846), xiv–xxii, 109, 217, 221, 225, 227, 273, 274, 276, 277, 278, 287, 298, 311, 319–22, 331, 332, 335, 340, 341, 343;
the dialectical in, 225
Corsair Affair (1846), xi, xix, 275
“A Cursory Observation Concerning a Detail in Don Giovanni” (1848), xi
Early Polemical Writings (1834–36), 294
Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses (1845), 321
Either/Or (1843 and 1849), x, xi, xii, xvi, xix, 276, 280, 287, 298, 310, 314, 315, 319
Fear and Trembling (1843), x, xi, xiv, xv, xix, 219, 276, 282, 340, 344
Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est (1842), ix–xvi, xviii, xxii, 281, 311;
irony in, 234–35;
and modern philosophy, 234–49;
plan of narrative, 238, 240, 250, 260–61, 263, 331
Letters and Documents, x
Moment (1855), xi
Philosophical Fragments (1844), ix, xi, xv, xvi–xx, xxii, 221, 225–27, 274, 276, 277, 278, 280, 282, 286, 296, 298, 301, 314, 320, 321, 326, 327, 331, 340, 341;
the absurd in, 221;
if/then, xix, 13, 14–15, 18, 19, 20–21, 30, 51, 69, 106–07;
indirect method of, 220;
irony in, 220;
Johannes Climacus on, xx–xxii;
review of, xix–xxii, 220, 222–24;
and scientific scholarship, 183–84
Point of View for My Work as an Author (1859), xi, 281, 321, 322
Practice in Christianity (1850), xi, 325
Prefaces (1844), xii, 306, 341
Repetition (1843), x, xi, xviii, xix, 282, 306, 340
Schelling Lecture Notes (1841–42), 283
Sickness unto death (1849), ix, xix, 280, 286, 290, 293, 294
Stages on Life’s Way (1845), xi, 287, 310, 328
Three Upbuilding Discourses (1843), x, 341
Two Ethical-Religious Essays (1849), 282
Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843), x, xiii
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (1847), 281
Works of Love (1847), 290
on writing, ix–xiii
king, see analogy, maiden and king
Klotho, 317
knowing: the god, 64, 68–69; and teacher, 68–69. See also knowledge
knowledge, 166, 252; absolute, 141; acquiring of, 277; approximation, 92–93; certainty of, 199; contemporary, 198; concerns of, 198; disinterested, 170, 258; of divinity, 93; of God, 11; historical, 59–64, 199; mathematical, 307; and necessity, 80, 211; object of, 253; relative, 141; scientific, 337; of self, 11; of star, 81. See also foreknowledge; knowing
know yourself, 152
Lachesis, 317
Lactantius, 53; Divinae institutiones, 294
Ladder of Divine Ascent, ix
Ladder of Paradise, ix
læres, 276
Lafeu, 295
Lange, Frederik Olaus, De casuum universis causis et rationibus commentatio grammatica, 321
language, 168; duplexity of, 251; as ideality, 255; illustration of, as offense, 50; and immediacy, 255; and Johannes Climacus, 121
Latin grammar, 235
Lavater, Johann Casper, letter from Hamann, 320
learner, xviii, 29, 30, 33, 34, 55, 57, 59, 64, 78, 93, 203–04, 281; contemporary, 59, 63; teacher as, 282; as teacher, 282; as truth, 52; as untruth, 14, 15, 18, 28, 32, 47, 194
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, x, 42, 80, 182, 212, 273, 290; Identity of Indiscernibles, 344; thought of, 344; Monadology, 273–74, 290, 344; Opera, 273; Theodicy, 303–05, 310, 334, 339
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 217, 273; Schriften, 273; “Ueber den Beweis des Geistes und der Kraft”, 273, 334–35
Levy, Carl Edvard Marius, 227, 341
Liden, 74
lidende, 293
life: and death, 330–31; task, doubt as, 262
lily, see analogy, lily
listening, 121–22. See also Johannes Climacus, listening
λόγος: pre-existence of, 181
London, road to, 64
love, 24–26, 29–30, 33–35, 163, 189; boundlessness of, 32; erotic, 27–28, 39, 47–48, 49, 195; expression of, 30; for the god, 216; from the god, 28–30; of the god, 64; mysteries of, 284–85; object of, 253; paradox of, 39; procreative, 31; religion of, 39; revelation of, 284–85; of self, 39, 48, 49–50; and teacher, 189; of teacher, 30; unhappy, 25, 28, 49; unity of, 32. See also analogy, maiden and king
Lucius Scipio, 296
lunacy, 6
Luther, 53
maiden and king, see analogy, maiden and king
man: creation of, 292; nature of, 37–38
manifestation: of mind, 79, 308–09; theory, 211
Martensen, Hans Lassen, 226–27, 249, 289, 323–24, 341; lectures, 344; Den christelige Daab, 316; Den menneskelige Selvbevidstheds Autonomie i vor Tids dogmatiske Theologie, 275
Mary Magdalene, 198
master thief motif, xi
mathematician, the mathematical, 208; knowledge, 307; thesis, 151–53, 245; truth, 151–52
matter: pre-existence of, 181
mediacy: and actuality, 168; and immediacy, 167–68, 171–72, 252, 260
mediation, 217, 222–24, 233, 279, 307–08
Mediering, 279
Melanippides, 292
Meletus, 286
Mendelssohn, Moses, 314
Meno, 276
μετάβασις είς ἂλλο γένος, 73
metaphysics, the metaphysical, ix, 273, 302
method, 211; Cartesian, ix; maieutic, 10, 231–32. See also absolute method; Hegel, and absolute method
μέθοδος, 311
midwife: Socrates as, 10. See also analogy, midwife; Socratic, the, midwifery
mind: manifestation of, 79, 308–09; suffering of, 49
Minos, 341
miracles, 295
modern philosophy, see philosophy, modern; terminology
Møller, Poul Martin, 212; Udkast til Forelæsninger over den ældre Philosophies Historie, 339
Moment, 325
moment, the, 14–15, 16–17, 18, 19, 20–21, 25, 28, 30–31, 51–52, 55, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 111, 171, 188, 196, 225, 280, 284, 325; dialectic of, 51–52; as fullness of time, 18
monastery, ix
monastic order, 158
Moral, the, 148
mortality: of human being, 153.
See also immortality
mother, see child, and mother
mountains, 34–35
Mt. Sinai, ix
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 310; admiration for, 310; Don Giovanni, xi
Müller, Julius, 227; Die christliche Lehre von der Sünde, 341
Münchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von, 103, 318
Mundus vult decipi, 223
Musaeus, 342
musician, see analogy, musician
mutiny: against authority, 332
Mynster, Jacob (Jakob) Peter, 341
mysteries: of love, 284–85
Napoleon, 40
naturalism, 277
naturalization, 316; and faith, 95–98, 213
nature, 76; of Christ, dual, 139–40; of consciousness, 167, 255, 331–32; definition of, 298; of existence, 166–72; and history, 76, 79; human, 47; imperfection of, 76; of man, 37–38; philosophy of, 303; of reason, dialectic of, 275–76; second, 96; sounds of, 108; study of, 279; of thought, 265
necessity, the necessary, 95–98, 137–38, 142–43, 227, 241, 299–300, 302–04, 326, 337–38; and coming into existence, 75, 209–11; and essence, 86; and foreknowledge, 80; and the future, 72–78; and knowledge, 80, 211; of the past, 72–75, 79–80, 303; and the past, 79, 209; and repentance, 210
negative, the, 10, 154; and discontinuity, 245; and thesis, 154
Neues Repertorium für die theologische Literatur und kirchliche Statistik, 220, 340
newness, 18
Nille, 192
non-being, 73, 339. See also being non-contemporary: and contemporary, 66–68, 104–05, 213, 214
nota bene, 104
object: of faith, 62, 100–01, 104, 213, 222; of faith, teacher as, 62; of knowledge, 253; of love, 253; of will, 253
objective doubt, 153
occasion, 12–13; pupil as, 23–24; Socrates as, 11; teacher as, 14–18, 24; vanishing, 11–14
Odysseus, 342
Oehlenschläger, Adam Gottlob, Sovedrikken, 318
Øieblik, 325
ølnordisk, 318
offense, 50, 195, 196, 217, 286; active, 50; at the paradox, 195, 196; suffering as, 49–52
old age, 306
omnipotence: divine, 280
one-drachma course, 184
ontological argument, 291
opbygge, 315
opdrage, 315
opelske, 315
orchestra, see analogy, orchestra
Origen, 277
origin: of philosophy, 310; of sin, 280
Orpheus, 342
orthodoxy, 218
Orythia, 287
Otanes, 297
others: and possibility, 227
pain of existence, 253
Palamedes, 342
paradox, 37, 47, 51–54, 98, 196, 199, 221–22, 225, 287; absolute, 37–48, 59, 61–62, 65–66, 95–98, 103–04, 107, 194–95; faith as, 65–66; of forgiveness of sin, 222; Incarnation as, 193–94; of love, 39; offense at, 195, 196; of thought, 37, 39; of time and eternity, 222; of understanding, 47–48; as wonder, 52
Parmenides, 329–30
particular, the, 300
passion(s): faith as, 92; moderation of, 260; of understanding, 47–48
past, the, 76–78, 199, 326; apprehension of, 79–80; coming into existence of, 79; duplexity of, 79; and freedom, 79; historian as prophet of, 310; historical as, 76; and necessity, 79, 209; necessity of, 72–75, 79–80, 303; unchangeableness of, 76–78
Paulus, Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob, Die endlich offenbar geworden positive Philosophie der Offenbarung, 282
peasant’s directions, see analogy, peasant’s directions
perception: and error, 212; and truth, 253
perfection: and being, 41, 290
Phaedrus, 287
Phaedyme, 297
Pharnaspes, 297
Philip, 6
philosopher(s), xiv, 10, 80, 104, 123, 140, 142, 145, 147, 149–50, 164, 203, 235, 243; beginning, 138; Egyptian, 157–58; Greek cynic, 275; Indian, 157–58; mark of, 310. See also Johannes Climacus
philosophizers, 123, 133, 147, 149, 164–65
philosophy, the philosophical, 109–10, 144–57, 186, 239–66, 285; absolute beginning of, 144–57, 239–66, 311; and Christianity, 182–83, 220; and doubt, 132–59, 244, 262; eternal, 147–48, 246, 248; German, 226–27; Greek, ix, 38, 280; and the historical, 203–05; and history, 148; history of, 133–34; of history, 302; individual’s relation to, 147–56; modern, x, 73, 116, 133–43, 169, 231, 232; modern, and doubt, 241; modern, terminology of, 258; of nature, 303; newest, 200; objective beginning of, 149; origin of, 310; political, x; of religion, 273; Socratic, 282; of Spirit, 315; subjective beginning of, 149–50, 153; tautology of, 242; thesis, 245; and time, 148; and wonder, 240
Philostratus, Flavius, Apollonius of Tyana, 316
Phyrrus, King, 296
Plato, ix, xviii, xix, 12, 24, 80, 83, 145, 167, 184, 211, 236, 250, 277, 298, 310; and Socrates, 60, 295–96; Apology, 10, 278, 281, 286, 341; Charmides, 279; Clitophon, 12, 280; Cratylus, 8, 276, 279, 288; Euthydemus, 9, 279; Euthyphro, 181, 334; Gorgias, 9, 26, 283, 297; Greater Hippias, 275, 279; Meno, 9, 276, 279; Opera, 273; Phaedo, 273, 277; Phaedrus, 37, 39, 287; Protagoras, 9, 276, 279; Sophist, 329, 337; Symposium, 31, 189, 283, 284–85, 289; Theaetetus, 10–11, 278, 279, 288, 339; Timaeus, 280; Werke, 278
Pliny, Natural History, 296
Plotinus, 335
Plutarch: De Stoicor., 304; Lives, “Nicias,” 318; “Themistocles,” 283–84; Werke, 283
poet, 34–35; Johannes Climacus not a, 191–92
poetical venture, 282
poetry, xix
polemic(s), xii–xiii
political philosophy, x
Polos, 26
Polycleitus, 292
positive, the, 10
possession of truth, 13
possibility, 74, 168, 209–11, 227, 290–91, 299, 303, 326; and actuality, 254, 299; of doubt, 255–56; of the ethical, 298; of the future, 303; and others, 227; real, 337–38; of repetition, 254
possible, 182
post-existence, 187. See also existence; non-existence
potency: and actuality, 344
potentiality, 300
Potidaea, 285–86
power: of faith, 34
present, 326
pre-existence, 187, 316; of evil, 181; of λόγος, 181; of matter, 181; recollection as, 96–97; of soul, 9–10, 181. See also existence; non-existence; post-existence
presence: of doubt, 251
pride, 282–83; of Johannes Climacus, 124
primitiv, 317
principium indiscernibilium, 254
probability: and faith, 94; proof, 94–95
Prodicus of Ceoa, 12, 276, 279
professor, 287
proof, see demonstration
prophet: as historian of the future, 310; in reverse, 80
prostitute, 33
Protestant subjectivity, 324
providence, divine, 302–03; and foreknowledge, 334; and freedom, 334; of God, 334
Ptolemy II, 315
“pugnacious proposition,” 9
Pupil, 23–25, 158, 281; as occasion, 23–24
purple: discovery of, 136
Pythagoras, 152, 157, 232, 246; and going beyond, 247
Pythagorean theorem, 148–49
qualitative difference, 41–46, 54, 193, 194–95
quality: and quantity, 98
quantity: and quality, 98
quotation marks: Johannes Climacus’s use of, 184
race: and the individual, 202–03, 207
Rammel, Else, Kierkegaard og Pengene, xix
real possibility, 337–38
reality, 167–68, 170–72, 290–91, 307; and actuality, 331; and consciousness, 256; and ideality, 251, 256, 331; immediacy as, 167–68; of thought, 231; of will, 233
reason, reasoning, 169, 190, 258, 306, 317, 323, 339; truth of, 273–74
rebirth, 19; and birth, 20–22, 97
recognizability: of the god, 32–35
recollection, 9–14, 15, 19, 25, 27, 31, 38, 62, 87, 105, 172, 188, 192, 251, 252, 277; as pre-existence, 96–97; and Socrates, 9–14, 38
reconciler, 17; the god as, 106–07; teacher as, 17
redeemer, 187
reflection, 169–70; categories of, 169–70; and consciousness, 169–70, 257; presupposed by consciousness, 257; and self, 93; universality of, 306
relation: absolute to absolute, 214; consciousness as, 169–70, 171; Socratic, 65–66, 215
relationship: to the god, 216; to God, 197, 216; Socratic, 10–12
relative knowledge, 141
religion, the religious: immediacy of, 330; of love, 39; philosophy of, 273; thesis, 151–53, 245; truth of, 151–52
repentance, 19; and ethics, 210; and necessity, 210
Repertorium, see Neues Repertorium
repetition, 171–72, 252, 255, 260; and actuality, 171–72; possibility of, 254
representation, 252
resolution: and doubt, 84–85; eternal, 25
responsibility: and freedom, 15–17; human, 280; for, sin, 280; and unfreedom, 15–17
retiring doubt, 265
revelation, 11, 33; of love, 284–85
review(s): of Fragments, xix–xxi, 220, 222–24
Rhadamanthus, 341
road: to Emmaus, 198; to London, 64
Robinson Crusoe, 147
Rome, Romans, 296
rower, see analogy, rower
Ruge, Arnold, 218; Anekdota zur neuesten deutschen Philosophie und Publicistik, 218, 340
Saft, 318
sailor, see analogy, sailor
St. Catherine of Alexandria monastery, ix
Salamanca, 235
Salighed, 273
Sallust, Jugurtha, 274; Opera, 274
Satan, 33
savior, 17, 32, 187; the god as, 195, 196; the teacher as, 17
Scharling, Carl Emil, Theologisk
Tidsskrift, Ny Række, 222–23, 341
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 278, 282, 283, 341; Philosophie der Offenbarung, 308; Vom ICH als Prinzip der Philosophie, 280; On University Studies, 306–07
Schiller, Johan Christoph Friedrich, Die Worte des Glaubens, 337
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Ernst
Daniel, 167, 251; The Christian Faith, 330; On Religion, 330
Schubert, Gotthilf Heinrich von, Die Symbolik des Traumes, 319
scientific knowledge, 337
scientific scholarship: and Fragments, 183–84
Scylla, 313
second nature, 96; and first nature, 214
secret agent, spy, xi
seed: and tree, see analogy, tree and seed
self, 327; and consciousness, 140, 169, 258; knowledge of, 11; knowledge of, and Socrates, 37, 39, 47; love of, 39, 48, 49–50; and reflection, 93
sensation: and cognition, immediacy of, 81–85; and deception, 261; and truth, 345
Septuagint, 315
servant, the: form of, 31–34, 55–56, 63–65, 93; the god as, 31, 55–56, 64–66, 93, 103–04; human being as, 56
Sextus Empiricus, 287, 345; Against the Logicians, 292–93; Outlines of Pyrrhonism, 287–88, 311, 312, 313
Shakespeare, William, 3, 53; All’s Well That Ends Well, 53, 295; As You Like It, 3; Hamlet, 290; King Lear, 53, 295; Werke, 274
shark, see analogy, shark
Sibbern, Frederik Christian, Logik som Tænkelære, 308, 331, 344
sickness: of soul, 335
side-by-sideness, 303
sin, xviii, 15, 17, 47–48, 50, 195, 227, 298; consciousness of, 51, 93, 111, 214; consequences of, 280; defined, 15; forgiveness of, as paradox, 222; as ignorance, 50; and individual, 227; origin of, 280; responsibility for, 280; slave of, 188; Socratic principle of, 50
sinner, 298. See also sin
Sirius, 201
Sisyphus, 342
skepticism, 170–71, 324, 344–45; Greek, 38, 82–83
skeptics, 259, 261, 262, 281, 287, 312–13, 345–46; and reality of will, 233; and suspension, 261
slave: of sin, 188
Socrates, xviii, 9–14, 17, 20–21, 24, 26, 30, 31, 37, 38, 44, 51, 58, 61, 64, 96, 97, 101–02, 111, 188, 189, 207, 215, 221, 231–32, 276–79, 281–87, 289, 292, 297; death of, 278; and the dialectic, 231–32; and faith, 87; and going beyond, 199; as ironist, 111; as midwife, 10; as occasion, 11; and Plato, 60, 295–96; and recollection, 9–14, 38; and self-knowledge, 37, 39, 47; as teacher, 23–24
Socratic, the, 33, 55, 97, 105–06, 111, 214–15, 219, 254; and going beyond, 111; ignorance of, 232; irony, xxii; midwifery, 19; philosophy, 282; principle of sin, 50; relation, 65–66, 215; relationship, 10–12; relationship, the highest, 55; thought, 13, 188
Solomon, 29
Solon’s law, 274
Son of God, 294
Sophists, 192; Greek, 167, 288, 292–93
Sophocles, 292
sorites, 43, 90–91, 191, 291–92
soul, 64, 203; beauties of, 285; and body, 278–79; destiny of, 273; freedom of, 304; immortality of, 9–10, 188, 277; of Johannes Climacus, 124; pre-existence of, 9–10, 181; sickness of, 335
spatial, the: and actuality, 297–98
speculation: ancient, 10, 277–78; modern, 10, 277–78
spider, see analogy, spider
Spinoza, Benedict (Baruch), 40–42, 62, 115, 190, 235, 238, 246, 261, 262, 264, 290; Ethics, 290, 293; On the Improvement of the Understanding, 321; Opera, 290; Principles of the Philosophy of René Descartes, 41, 290, 343
Spirit, 317; philosophy of, 315
spirit, absolute, 149
star, knowledge of, 81
statements: and the immediate, 252
state of doubt, 250
status absolutus, 318
status constructus, 318
stick in water, 254
Stilling, Peter Michael, Philosophiske Betragtninger over den spekulative Logiks Betydning for Videnskaben, 327
stone, throwing, 17
stopping of doubt, 262
Strauss, David, 341
subjectivity: Protestant, 324; and untruth, 13–16, 28, 32, 47, 51–52, 187, 194–95
suffering, 33, 49–52, 74; of Christ, 154, 195, 196; of mind, 49; as offense, 49–52
supernatural, 286
suspension: of judgment, 345; and skeptics, 261
sword, 155
Syracuse, 5
system, the, 6, 116, 149, 183–84
tall cupboard, 199
tautology, 138–39, 182; of philosophy, 242
teacher, the, 11, 34, 57, 63, 72, 93, 111, 158–59, 197, 198, 247; absolute, 215; as deliverer, 17; experience as, 158; external form of, 65; the god as, 15, 28, 47, 55, 57, 111; God as, 187; as judge, 18; and knowing, 68–69; as learner, 282; learner as, 282; and love, 189; love of, 30; as object of faith, 62; as occasion, 14–18, 24; as reconciler, 17; as savior, 17; Socrates as, 23–24
teleology, teleological, 211
temple of Diana, 337
temporal, the: and actuality, 297–98
Tennemann, Wilhelm Gottlieb, Geschichte der Philosophie, x–xi, 167, 187, 191, 233, 254, 261, 275, 298–99, 300–01, 303, 330, 335, 336, 343, 346
terminology: of modern philosophy, 258
Tertullian, 53; De carne Christi, 294
test of truth, 324
Theaetetus, 329–30
Themistocles, 26
Theophrastus, 249
thesis, the: enunciation of, 154; ethical, 151–53, 245; historical, 152–53, 241; of Johannes Climacus, 131–32; mathematical, 151–53, 245; metaphysical, 152–53; and the negative, 154; philosophical, 245; receiving of, 154; religious, 151–53, 245; truth of, 152
thought, 122, 154, 281, 302; freedom as superior to, 233; Greek, 145; human, 191; and imagination, 234; limit of, 37; nature of, 265; objective, 170; paradox of, 37, 39; reality of, 231; and the unknown, 37, 44; and will, 234. See also Johannes Climacus
Thought-Project, xviii, 9–22, 276
Tilblivelse, 280
time, 171; the fullness of, 18, 317; and philosophy, 148. See also moment, the
Tiresias, 304
tragedy, Greek, 282–83
tree and seed, see analogy, tree and seed
Triptolemus, 341
Tro, 311
troll, 155
Troy, 342
truth, xviii, 9, 12, 31, 50, 167, 187, 196, 224, 255, 262, 288, 303–04, 311, 317; acquiring of, 13; and actuality, 253; Christian, xxi; and condition for acquiring, 14–19, 31, 56, 59, 62–64, 65, 69–70, 87, 93, 100, 103, 106–07, 187, 197, 198, 214–15; criterion of, 38; dialectic of, 254; and doubt, 261; essential, 152; eternal, 62, 290–91; ethical, 151–52; exclusion from, 14; of the fact, 273–74; historical, 152–53; and ideality, 253; and immediacy, 167–68, 250–51, 255; and individual, 14; individual’s relation to, 147–56; inwardness as, 219; learner as, 52; learning of, 13; linkage of, 339; mathematical, 151–52; metaphysical, 151; and perception, 253; possession of, 13; of reasoning, 273–74; religious, 151–52; and sensation, 345; test of, 324; of the thesis, 152; as unity, 30; and untruth, 15, 31, 47, 167
two: and doubt, 258
uncertainty: definition of, 261–62; determination of, 253; and doubt, 259, 262
unchangeableness: of the past, 76–78. See also change
understanding, the, 52, 54, 59; collision of, 196; paradox of, 47–48; passion of, 47–48; and the unknown, 37, 44
unfreedom: and freedom, 17; and responsibility, 15–17
unhappy love, see love, unhappy
unity, 29–32; brought about by descent, 31; of love, 32; truth as, 30
universality, the universal, 300, 306, 317; of reflection, 306
unknown, the: as frontier, 44–45; the god as, 39, 44; and thought, 37; and understanding, 37, 44
unmoved, mover, 24
untruth, 194–95; contemporary as, 70; follower as, 65; guilt of, 31; and immediacy, 167; learner as, 14, 15, 18, 28, 32, 47, 194; and subjectivity, 13–16, 28, 32, 47, 51–52, 187, 194–95; and truth, 15, 31, 47, 167
Valerius Maximus, Sammlung merkwürdiger Reden und Thaten, 275
Varro, 305
Venice, 98
Vidunderet, 36
voice: of the god, 34–35
walking, 37–38; and Johannes Climacus, 120
Wandering Jew, the, viii
Wette, Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de, Lærebog i den christelige Sædelære, ix
will, 16, 124, 211–12; belief as expression of, 83; and doubt, 83, 233–34, 250, 256, 259, 262; and error, 83, 342–43; and faith, 62–63; and feelings, 259; of Johannes Climacus, 141; object of, 253; reality of, 233; and thought, 234
wisdom, 293–94
without authority, 321
wonder, the, 36, 80–81, 86, 93, 145, 151, 199, 247, 266, 310; as beginning of philosophy, 240; faith as, 65–66; paradox as, 52; and philosophy, 240
works, demonstration from, 40–44
world(s): possibility of, 310
world history, 317; four phases of, 306
writing, algebraic, 91
Xenophanes, 281
Xenophon, 292; Memorabilia, 274, 279, 292, 293
Xerxes, King, 284
youth, 115
Zeno of Elea, 281
Zeuxis, 292