For Self-Examination / Judge For Yourself!

Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780691020662, 9780691073682
• eBook ISBN: 9781400874361
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy of Religion

For Self-Examination and its companion piece Judge for Yourself! are the culmination of Søren Kierkegaard's "second authorship," which followed his Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Among the simplest and most readily comprehended of Kierkegaard's books, the two works are part of the signed direct communications, as distinguished from his earlier pseudonymous writings. The lucidity and pithiness, and the earnestness and power, of For Self-Examination and Judge for Yourself! are enhanced when, as Kierkegaard requested, they are read aloud. They contain the well-known passages on Socrates' defense speech, how to read, the lover's letter, the royal coachman and the carriage team, and the painter's relation to his painting. The aim of awakening and inward deepening is signaled by the opening section on Socrates in For Self-Examination and is pursued in the context of the relations of Christian ideality, grace, and response. The secondary aim, a critique of the established order, links the works to the final polemical writings that appear later after a four-year period of silence.

INDEX

Abraham: and Isaac, 79

acting, action: Christianity and, 116–17, 261

life as, 11

and speaking, 11

understanding and, 28–36, 115–22

actuality: Christianity and, 117

given, 19–20

and sobriety, 123

and spiritual trial, 20

addiction: and craving, 45

admission, 126, 128–29, 237

Christianity and, 101–02, 133–35, 141–43, 207–08, 213, 255, 258

Kierkegaard and, 167

Mynster and, 258–59

and requirement, 197, 255

and single individual, 101–02

advantage: Christianity and, 254

renunciation and, 122–25

alliance(s): birth and, 160–61

and Christ, 160–61, 164–65, 167, 170–73

ambiguity: and Christendom, 123–25, 128

Ambrose, Te Deum, 276

analogy: Bachelor of Theology, 110–12

bank, 136

bank-note, 162

drunken peasant, 24

gambler, 45

hunting dog, 248

knot, 196, 257–58

letter from beloved, 26–32, 229

mirror, 25–26, 35, 43–44, 50–51, 229–31, 234

royal coachman, 85–87, 107–09, 240

royal decree, 33–34

school, 199–200

soldier’s uniform, 68–69

stroller, 185–86

wager, 235

Andersen, Hans Christian: “Magic Galoshes,” 280

Only a Fiddler, viii

Samlede Skrifter, 280

apostles, 114

and Christianity, 86–87

and dying to, 84–85

and Holy Spirit, 75, 77, 96–98

and love, 85

and mankind, 84

as sober, 103, 239

appropriation, 17–19, 26, 28–31, 57, 109, 112, 115, 131–32, 138–39, 150–51...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
• For Self-Examination
• PREFACE
• I. What Is Required in Order to Look at Oneself with True Blessing in the Mirror of the Word? (Fifth Sunday after Easter)
• II. Christ Is the Way (Ascension Day)
• III. It Is the Spirit Who Gives Life (Pentecost)
• Judge for Yourself!
• PREFACE
• I. Becoming Sober
• II. Christ as the Prototype, or No One Can Serve Two Masters
• SUPPLEMENT
• EDITORIAL APPENDIX
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
• INDEX