Timore e tremore. Aut-Aut (Diapsalmata)

dear reader, you don't even read this stuff anymore, do you?! i wouldn't if i were you! but that's the difference between me and you! you have no life, are pathetic, sit in front of your computer all day stalking your peers on various social networking sites, while i go on constantly mocking your eff Leggi tutto

Listen I don’t like rating books because I subscribe to the belief that dumbing down the complexity of literature to a scale of 1-5 is stupid. However. Kierkegaard is hot and I refuse to not do my part in increasing the average rating of this book.

کیرکگور، پس از معرفی سه سپهر انسانی (زیبایی طلب، اخلاقی، ایمانی) کتاب "یا این یا آن" خود را به تحلیل دو سپهر نخست اختصاص می دهد، اما سپهر سوم شخصیتی را به کتاب دیگرش، ترس و لرز وا می گذارد. ترس و لرز به تمامی در وصف ماهیت ایمان است، آن سان که کیرکگور تعریف می کند. این دید منحصر به فرد از ایمان مخالف Leggi tutto

I was going to write that I still come back to this book, even ten years after reading it for the first time. But that's not quite true. What is true is that this book has never really left me; it has worked itself into my psyche and become an automatic philosophical reference point for my life. Kie Leggi tutto

“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment...if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?” Considered a precursor of existential thought, Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling Leggi tutto