Kierkegaards Notions Of Risk Faith Passion

Kierkegaard.s Notions Of Risk, Faith, Passion, & Truth Essay, Research Paper

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Kierkegaard puts forth a unique form of existentialism. He chooses to use the

questions of subjectivity, objectivity, and the search for truth, in

existentialist thought as a means for the justification of his faith. Through

this he comes up with one of the purest definitions of what faith really is.

The question is then; can he through his discussion of .the paradox of truth.

be susceptible to Nietzschian relativism, given this conception. The conclusion

is that it is not; Kierkegaard.s definition requires a passionate belief in

something. One cannot believe that everything is relative, in true Nietzschian

style, and hold a passionate belief in a specific something at the same time. .... .The

Paradox of Truth. is one of the base conceptions in Kierkegaard.s theoretical

framework and is core to his conceptions of faith and risk. .A paradox results

from the relationship between the eternal (the essential truth) and the

existing individual..[1]

This is expanded to .The Ultimate paradox is: That the eternal truth has come

into being in time, (the infinite has become finite). To believe this paradox

(the Absurd) is to be in the highest state of truth. Christianity has declared

itself to be the eternal essential truth which has come onto being in time; it

has proclaimed itself as the paradox, and it has required of the individual the

inwardness of faith with respect to the absurd..[2] To further

understand what Kierkegaard is saying when it comes to his .paradox of truth.

one must understand Kierkegaard.s beliefs, when it comes to the notion of

truth. Kierkegaard seems to believe at the base of things that Truth equals

Passion, or that truth requires passion. For if you are to believe that

something is the truth, you must have passion in that belief to truly believe

it. Otherwise you do not truly believe, you simply believe because the choice

has already been made for you and you believe because you should. Which is not

true belief. True belief comes about when you have made a decision for

yourself, and believe out of your own violation, choosing to have faith even in

the face of uncertainty. .Passionate inwardness is the mark of truth even if,

or rather when, the truth is objectively uncertain..[3]

Kierkegaard believes that subjectivity, inwardness, and faith are synonymous

and that their definitions are an expression for truth. .the objective

uncertainty, held fast in an appropriation process of the most passionate

inwardness is the truth..[4] .... The

type of uncertainty that Kierkegaard talks about my be less obvious when

considering, day to day truths, but we must remember that Kierkegaard is most

concerned with his definitions of truth and faith as they relate to him and his

relationship with God. Kierkegaard asserts that we should most concern our

selves and our hunt for truth with questions that are close to us, and so he is

concerned with the nature and basis of his faith. This preoccupation with his

faith must be taken into account as the main paradox when one reads the

following passage about the eternal truth. When the eternal

truth is related to an existing individual, truth becomes a paradox. The

paradox repels the individual because of the objective uncertainty and

ignorance towards inwardness. But since this paradox in itself is not

paradoxical, it does not push the spirit far enough. For without risk there is

no faith, and the greater the risk the greater the faith, and the more

objective reliability, the less inwardness (for inwardness is precisely

subjectivity). Indeed, the less objective reliability, the deeper becomes the

possible inwardness. When the paradox is in itself paradoxical, it repels the

individual by the power of the absurd, and the corresponding passion, which is

produced in the process, is faith.[5].... It

is through this understanding of the paradoxical and its effect on the

individual that we come to understand Kierkegaard.s conception of faith. For

Kierkegaard one of the base truths of faith is that it requires risk. If there

is no risk that what you believe is untrue, that is that it has been proven to

you objectively, through objective evidence then you have no need of faith for

you know it is true. .By its very nature, faith involves risk, the risk that

what you are believing is not objectively true. In fact, it is only after one

recognizes the death of God, the intellectual recognition that God does not

exist, that on is free to become genuinely ethical and existentially self

aware..[6]

That is that when we have admitted to ourselves that based on purely

intellectual grounds there is no objective evidence to say that God exists,

only once we have come fully to the belief that there is absolutely no reason

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