Anniversari
Quest'anno si celebrano i 150 anni della morte di Soren Kirkegaard, il "Socrate del nord", uno dei filosofi che, ai tempi, mi ha fatto più piacere studiare (se non si considera che potrei dirlo dell'80% dei pensatori... ma, data l'affinità con Socrate, mi sta particolarmente simpatico).
E allora godiamoci un breve passo, un concentrato di un sistema di pensiero originale e molto attuale... E prendiamoci un po' di tempo per pensarci su...
Buon divertimento!
"Being an individual man is a thing that has been abolished, and every speculative philosopher confuses himself with humanity at large; whereby he becomes something infinitely great, and at the same time nothing at all....To be a particular individual is world-historically absolutely nothing, infinitely nothing -- and yet, this is the only true and highest significance of a human being, so much higher as to make every other significance illusory....If initially my human nature is merely an abstract something, it is at any rate the task which life sets me to become subjective, the uncertaintly of death comes more and more to interpenetrate my subjectivity dialectically. It thus becomes more and more important for me to think it in connection with evey factor and phase of my life; for since the uncertaintly is there in every moment, it can be overcome only by overcoming it in every moment....An objective uncertaintly held fast in an appropriation-process of the most passionate inwardness is the truth, the highest truth attainable for an existing individual...All knowledge about reality is possibility. The only reality to which an existing individual may have a relation that is more than cognitive, is his own reality, the fact that he exists; this reality constitutes his absolute interest. Abstract thought requires him to become disinterested in order to acquire knowledge; the ethical demand is that he become infinitely interested in existing....For an abstract thinker to try to prove his existence by the fact that he thinks, is a curious contradiction; for in the degree that he thinks abstractly he abstracts from his own existence."
- Soren Kierkegaard
E allora godiamoci un breve passo, un concentrato di un sistema di pensiero originale e molto attuale... E prendiamoci un po' di tempo per pensarci su...
Buon divertimento!
"Being an individual man is a thing that has been abolished, and every speculative philosopher confuses himself with humanity at large; whereby he becomes something infinitely great, and at the same time nothing at all....To be a particular individual is world-historically absolutely nothing, infinitely nothing -- and yet, this is the only true and highest significance of a human being, so much higher as to make every other significance illusory....If initially my human nature is merely an abstract something, it is at any rate the task which life sets me to become subjective, the uncertaintly of death comes more and more to interpenetrate my subjectivity dialectically. It thus becomes more and more important for me to think it in connection with evey factor and phase of my life; for since the uncertaintly is there in every moment, it can be overcome only by overcoming it in every moment....An objective uncertaintly held fast in an appropriation-process of the most passionate inwardness is the truth, the highest truth attainable for an existing individual...All knowledge about reality is possibility. The only reality to which an existing individual may have a relation that is more than cognitive, is his own reality, the fact that he exists; this reality constitutes his absolute interest. Abstract thought requires him to become disinterested in order to acquire knowledge; the ethical demand is that he become infinitely interested in existing....For an abstract thinker to try to prove his existence by the fact that he thinks, is a curious contradiction; for in the degree that he thinks abstractly he abstracts from his own existence."
- Soren Kierkegaard
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