Word: kierkegaard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course." Most people, after all, don't want to get caught holding an unfashionable belief. What's the news? But my purpose here is not to defend an everyday kind of hypocrisy. Nor, on the other hand, is it to defend the high tradition that runs from Socrates to Kierkegaard of using irony to knock people off of ideas they have long and lazily stood upon. That use, I think, isn't what's bothering Purdy...
...argue further for irony, I am going to use Soren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates. I do this not only because it will make me look smart, but because I get to employ the underutilized o. Like that crazy Socrates, who made fun of his interlocutors while pretending to compliment them, Kierkegaard uses irony to force his opponents to avoid rehearsed answers and confront their true beliefs. He even wrote under pseudonyms like Hilarius Bookbinder, Nicolaus Notabene and Constantin Constantius. In the world of 19th century Christian philosophy, this is sidesplitting stuff, trust...
Evans recalls meeting West playing pool, andeven in that setting West would "crack jokes"about Marx, Hegel or Kierkegaard...
...Tennessee and Texas, you've ripped your britches," wrote James Dunn of the Baptist Joint Committee, whose group favors a clear separation between church and state. "The notion that public funds will not alter the religious character of faith-based programs requires a leap of faith that even Kierkegaard could not negotiate...
MOYERS: In authentic religion, doesn't it take Kierkegaard's leap of faith...