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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 April 2018
      08 March 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316848180
      9781107180581
      9781316632284
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316848180
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Religion, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Religion, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
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    No thinker has reflected more deeply on the role of religion in human life than Søren Kierkegaard, who produced in little more than a decade an astonishing number of works devoted to an analysis of the kind of personality, character, and spiritual qualities needed to become an authentic human being or self. Understanding religion to consist essentially as an inward, passionate, personal relation to God or the eternal, Kierkegaard depicts the art of living religiously as a self through the creation of a kaleidoscope of poetic figures who exemplify the constituents of selfhood or the lack thereof. The present study seeks to bring Kierkegaard into conversation with contemporary empirical psychology and virtue ethics, highlighting spiritual dimensions of human existence in his thought that are inaccessible to empirical measurement, as well as challenging on religious grounds the claim that he is a virtue ethicist in continuity with the classical and medieval virtue tradition.

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    'In this incredibly clear, sweepingly aware, and compellingly argued book, Walsh presents Kierkegaard as being most radical when at his most religious, and at his most empirically relevant when at his most existentially concerned. Although this book is primarily written for a scholarly audience, the Kierkegaard that Sylvia Walsh presents is someone that I hope all my students get to meet. And since I get to decide what goes on the syllabus, I will make sure that they do.'

    J. Aaron Simmons Source: Reading Religion

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