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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 21:42:21 No.7274654 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7274679 >>7274761 >>7275034

I just started reading The Sickness Unto Death.

"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself."

Am I dumb for not understanding this?

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 21:46:21 No.7274667 Report Delete

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he's satirizing both Hegel and himself and also making a point about what the self actually is, that which relates to itself in the relation

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 21:49:51 No.7274679 Report Delete

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>>7274654
It means that no matter what you try it always comes down to: just be yourself

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 22:09:07 No.7274748 Report Delete

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Look, I know that seems confusing. Read the rest of Sickness Unto Death, then come back to that, and it will all make sense. I promise.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 22:13:59 No.7274761 Report Delete

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>>7274654
The self is the relation's relating, that is, the mediating activity that resides within opposites, such as the infinite and the finite, necessity and freedom, and so on. The self is not the relation or synthesis created by the thesis and antithesis—no, that would be the Hegelianism that he rejected because it destroys the law of contradiction—, the self is found in the activity of the relation, what Kierkegaard calls the relation's relating. It operates in and through the tensions created by the opposites. Kierkegaard stresses that the relation proper is a "third as a negative unity"; the positive third, on the other hand, is the "relation's relating". That is, it is not a static mediation but an active one that constitutes the true mediation, which is self.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 22:20:31 No.7274779 Report Delete

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You associate yourself and what is not yourself with group of qualities. It is the act of creating this set of qualities, and thus, creating a division of all other qualities, which determines what you are. Because it is you who draw the line between what is you and what is not you.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 22:37:02 No.7274837 Report Delete

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Does someone have the book larnin' to give me a list/order to read Kierkegaard's stuff?

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 22:45:09 No.7274852 Report Delete

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>>7274837
In this order:
Fear and Trembling
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Seducer's Diary in Either/Or I
The rest of Either/Or
Concept of Anxiety (very difficult)
Sickness Unto Death

From there, you can pretty much read whatever you want from him.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 23:44:57 No.7275015 Report Delete

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>>7274852

Thanks man, I appreciate it

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 23:49:34 No.7275034 Report Delete

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>>7274654
I really like this portrait, who made it?

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 00:18:08 No.7275107 Report Delete

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>>7274852
No Philosophical Fragments?

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 00:19:28 No.7275111 Report Delete

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Bootstrap paradox.

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