Posted on November 25, 2018
by kierkegaardschallenge
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For many days I had been debating within myself many and diverse things, seeking constantly, and with anxiety, to find out my real self, my best good, and the evil to be avoided, when suddenly one—I know not, but eagerly strive to know, whether it were my-self or another, within me or without— said to me:
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Category: Kierkegaard's Christian world viewTags: Alexander Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Elijah, Erasmus, Erasmus Darwin, Estrangement, Francis Bacon, Francois Rabelais, Friedrich Nietzsche, God, Hegel, Holy Bible, Johann Fichte, Johann Goethe, John Locke, John of Salisbury, Peter Lombard, Plato, René Descartes, Rousseau, Saint Sugustine, Science, Soren Kierkegaard, Spirit and Mind, Theron Gray
If Locke is right in considering the having general ideas as the distinguishing feature between man and brutes, and if we ourselves are right in pointing to language as the one palpable distinction between the two, it would seem to follow that language is the outward sign and realization of that inward faculty which is called the faculty of abstraction, but which is better known to us by the homely name of reason.
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Category: Kierkegaard's Christian world viewTags: Aufklärung, Christian Wolff 1679-1754, Count Zinzendorf, doctrine of the universal spirit, Fichte, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Hegel, Hermes Trismegistus, Johann Georg Hamann, Jonathan Edwards, Schelling, The Christian Philosopher (Mether), The Enlightenment, Universal History by von Muller
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