Early Kierkegaardian Noetic Methods for Accessing Privacy

Authors

  • Juan Fernando Sellés Author Universidad de Navarra

Keywords:

cognitive methods, aesthetics methods, ethics methods, religious methods, human intimacy

Abstract

This article reviews the various noetic methods Kierkegaard initially sized up to access the theme of human intimacy. Some of them fall within what he referred to as the aesthetic: irony, music and tragedy. Others belong to what he called the ethical realm: the negative affections of the spirit such as sadness, boredom, anxiety and despair. The other, marriage, was included by the Danish philosopher within the sphere of the religious.

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Published

2013-02-20

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Reflection articles