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Past Masters from InteLex:Kierkegaard and Existentialism
Jaclyn Lee Parrott
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Reference Topic: Reflection and Action within Existentialism
According to Kierkegaard
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OED: Existentialism • A doctrine that concentrates on the existence of the individual, who, being free and responsible, is held to be what he makes himself by the self-development of his essence through acts of the will (which, in the Christian form of the theory, leads to God).
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• The existentialist movement was mainly originated by the Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55), who frequently used the term Existents-forhold ‘condition of existence, existential relation’. It was developed in the 20th c. chiefly in continental Europe by Jaspers, Sartre, and others, and the English word existentialism answers to German existentialismus, which is first recorded in 1919 (see below).
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Search StrategyWe have a great database that covers the works of several literary authors, theologians, and philosophers like Kierkegaard. It is called Past Masters from InteLex Corporation. It is a full-text database that originated in 1989, and we can find out if there are writings by Kierkegaard on reflection and action within existentialism that could aid you in your research.
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Subject or Title SearchSubject: Religious StudiesAll Philosophy: Continental PhilosophyTitle:• Kierkegaard: Journals and Papers• Kierkegaard: Samlede Vaerker
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Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers. Electronic edition.Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers. Volume 1, A-E
EndmatterNotes, Commentary, and Topical Bibliography
ACTION
• ACTION• Action always stands in relation to a resolution consciously
thought through. Without this clarity of resolution, it would have to be said of our actions that things "happen to us rather than that we act”
• Action presupposes self-knowledge so that we can be sure that our actions depend on conscientious reflections and are not in "the service of unclarified cravings" (Edifying Discourses, IV, p. 23).
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