Theory and Practice in Kant and Kierkegaard / / Ulrich Knappe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 2000 - 2014
• VerfasserIn: Knappe, Ulrich,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (154 p.)

Diese Arbeit untersucht wesentliche Aspekte von Kants Erkenntnistheorie und Ethik im Verhältnis zu Kierkegaards Denken. Der Verfasser stellt sich der Herausforderung, Kants und Kierkegaards Position systematisch zu rekonstruieren, wobei Kant als Folie für die Interpretation Kierkegaards dient. Die Hauptthese besteht darin, dass die Stadientheorie Kierkegaards sehr viel stärker Kantischem Gedankengut verpflichtet ist, als es der Textbefund zunächst vermuten lässt.

This work investigates crucial aspects of Kant's epistemology and ethics in relation to Kierkegaard's thinking. The challenge is taken up of developing a systematic reconstruction of Kant's and Kierkegaard's position. Kant forms a matrix for the interpretation of Kierkegaard, and considerable space is devoted to the exposition of Kant at those various points at which contact with Kierkegaard's thought is to be demonstrated. The burden of the argument is that Kierkegaard in his account of the stages is much closer to Kant than the texts initially reveal. It is possible, then, to arrive at a proper grasp of Kierkegaard's final position by seeing just how radically the stage of Christian faith (Religiousness B) departs from Kant.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. In Search of a Theory of -- Knowledge -- Chapter 2. Kierkegaard’s Explicit and Implicit -- Critiques of Kant’s Theory of Knowledge -- Chapter 3. Double-Mindedness or the Failure of an -- Orientation of the Will -- Chapter 4. The Ethical Stage -- Chapter 5. The Religious Conception in Purity of -- Heart and Postscript -- Chapter 6. The Christian Stage of Existence and Its -- Departure from Kant -- Backmatter