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Exploration Of The Relationship Between Reason And Belief From Kierkegaard's Religious Thought

Posted on:2018-12-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S Y ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330515968808Subject:Philosophy
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By the rise of Reformation in Europe,the continent experienced a long debate and war,what shaked the authority of the church and the theological foundation,weakening the orthodox certainty.In order to end this situation,it was ugent to find a standard that could be universally accepted.Under the circumstances,the status of reason gradually increased,and even became the highest court of the trial of belief.But the blind expanded of reason made some people anxious.Rousseau has injected the elements of emotion and will,laying the foundation for Kant's moral religion.Hume argued from the point of view of empiricism about the power and boundaries.On the basis of Rousseau and Hume,Kant pointed out that the rational religion of the past was the abuse of reason,and the ultimate way of the religion lay in the moral field.And later,Hegel constructed a speculative theology that incorporated religion into a speculative system and eventually abandoned it.In Kierkegaard's life in Denmark,Hegelianism prevailed.Most of Kierkegaard's writings should be seen as an effort to overthrow the rationalism of Hegelian theology.This paper tries to grasp the core concept of Kierkegaard's religious thought,and combs the problem from the three aspects,the object of belief,the subject of belief and the way of belief.The object of belief is the incarnation of Jesus Christ,which is an absolute paradox from the reason' s viewpoint,manifested in the paradox of absolute and absolute equality,and the eternal history and the eternal paradox of history;the subject of belief cant realize being into the situation of non-truth,however the existence of absurdity in truth provides an opportunity to boycott in the face of absurdity,reason,or the expression of his non-truth.In this way,the belief can realize its non-truth situation,that is,a fallacy.By then,it can be well prepared for belief.The partern of belief is the same way of the believers deal with the paradoxes.God's futile paradox challenges human's understanding.Reason struggles instinctly in the face of the divine man of Jesus Christ.And it attempts to provide evidence and a basis based on prior evidence and experience evidence.and it is no doubt that it failed.Kierkegaard fundamentally denies the necessity to prove the existence of God.But he thinks it normal,because faced with paradox,it will be offensive to the reason,if it cannot jump with the ladder of paradoxes it will never be belief,and there is no other way if there is no rational between the offending and belief.The belief obtained after the jump is not the objective truth which is universally agreed to,but the subjective truth.In subjective truth,Kierkegaard tries to express the paradoxical relationship with man,which is not epistemological,but in sense of survival.The most important thing is that the divine nature of Jesus Christ is not universally effective,but this paradox is associated with human life and changing human life.Finally,this article explains some of the classic misunderstandings and tries to respond to them.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kierkegaard, reason and belief, the paradox
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