On Honesty
Almost two hundred years ago, Søren Kierkegaard wrote: “Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the…
Postmodernism vs. Kierkegaardian Subjectivism: Imagination as Epistemology
In high-school, I had many of my science lab-reports returned to me with the comment “Re-write this in a more professional tone.” In an effort to render…
Of Which We May Speak: Meditations on Irony
The intelligentsia professes an admiration for irony. In the 1990s the members of that class watched Seinfeld in first-run and they bought the program on DVD because…
Socratic and Secular Irony
A Case for Irony. Jonathan Lear (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011). Today we often misunderstand irony for sarcasm, self-detachment, or cleverness instead as a source…
Heidegger and Kierkegaard: Conception of Aesthetics and Art
In our new examination of Heidegger’s and Kierkegaard’s relationship of thinking we will realize that certain common aspects arise in their approach to the reality of the…
Socrates Meets Kierkegaard
Socrates Meets Kierkegaard: The Father of Philosophy Meets the Father of Christian Existentialism. Peter Kreeft. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2014. In his essay on Hegel,…
Noesis and Faith: Eric Voegelin and Søren Kierkegaard
Why Voegelin and Kierkegaard? Why Voegelin and Kierkegaard? Both of them have pursued an intricate analysis of the structure of existence and of the various possibilities of…
Eric Voegelin and Continental Philosophy: Diagnosing Modernity
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Explorations in Modern Political Thought. Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011. I…
Modern Views of Plato’s Silence (Part I)
Plato directly and indirectly cautions his students that he does not communicate with them straightforwardly. To repeat the warnings quoted previously, Plato fiercely denies in his Seventh…