Rationalizing Socrates’ <i>daimonion</i>

Ehli, Bridger

doi:10.1080/09608788.2017.1393621

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

2017

DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2017.1393621

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Rationalizing Socrates’ daimonion

Bridger Ehli

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Kierkegaard on Socrates’ daimonion

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2019

International Journal of Philosophy and Theology

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In this article, I argue that Kierkegaard's interpretation of Socrates' daimonion in The Concept of Irony should be read in light of his notion of the demonic in The Concept of Anxiety, and vice versa. Whereas the first should primarily be seen as an exemplification of philosophical transcendental consciousness, the second assumes a more strictly 'moral' connotation ('anxiety about the good'). If the notion of the demonic in The Concept of Anxiety draws upon the Socratic daimonion in The Concept of Irony, this will have implications for philosophy and science in so far as they take a transcendental consciousness for granted. However, Kierkegaard's continued reference to, if not identification with, Socrates, prevents us from immobilising Kierkegaard's 'own' philosophy, as though the Socratic position can ever be definitively overcome. The 'enclosed reserve' of the demonic is rather philosophy's weak spot.

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Kierkegaard on Socrates’ daimonion

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International Journal of Philosophy and Theology

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