Concrete and Otherworldly: Reading Kierkegaard's Works of Love alongside Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Abstract

Here I argue that much of the confusion surrounding the status of material aid to the neighbor in Kierkegaard's Works of Love is cleared up once one sees the text as participating in a movement that has a fundamentally Hegelian substructure: from Moralit€ at in Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits to Sittlichkeit in Works of Love. As might be expected, Kierkegaard takes this Hegelian structure in a very different direction than the Hegel of Philosophy of Right-a direction best described as an Augustinian ethic that is both concrete and otherworldly.

Signifikansi Eksistensialisme Religius Soren Kierkegaard Di Era Digital

“…Sebagaimana tulisan Chafid Wahyudi yang berjudul Tuhan dalam Perdebatan Eksistensialisme yang berfokus pada makna Tuhan (Wahyudi, 2012). Kemudian tulisan Thomas Joseph Millay dengan judul Concrete and Otherworldy: Reading Kierkegaard's, yang secara spesifik mengupas makna kebenaran subjektif menurut Kierkegaard (Millay, 2017). Ada pula tulisan yang membandingkan pemikiran Kierkegaard dengan tokoh lain sebagaimana yang diteliti oleh Petr Vaskovic dengan judul A path to authenticity: Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky on existential transformation (Vaskovic, 2019).…”