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By Peter J. Mehl

pondering via Kierkegaard is a severe review of Søren Kierkegaard's imaginative and prescient of the normatively human, of who we're and can aspire to develop into, and of what Mehl calls our existential id. via a pragmatist exam of 3 of Kierkegaard's key pseudonymous "voices" (Judge William, Climacus, and Anti-Climacus), Peter J. Mehl argues that Kierkegaard's direction isn't the in basic terms finish of our seek, yet as an alternative leads us to verify a plurality of paths towards a satisfying existential id. _x000B_Contrary to Kierkegaard's perfect of ethical personhood and orthodox Christian identification, Mehl goals to recognize the potential of pluralism in existential identities. by way of challenging sensitivity to the deep methods social and cultural context impacts human conception, interpretation and self?representation, Mehl argues that Kierkegaard isn't easily studying but in addition partaking in a cultural development of the person. _x000B_Drawing on debts of what it's to be anyone via favorite philosophers outdoor of Kierkegaard scholarship, together with Charles Taylor, Owen Flanagan, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Thomas Nagel, Mehl additionally works to bridge the analytic and continental traditions and reestablishes Kierkegaard as a wealthy source for situating ethical and non secular id. This reexamination of Kierkegaard is suggested for somebody drawn to what it potential to be someone. _x000B_

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