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22Commentary on Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript With a New Introduction (review)Review of Metaphysics 40 (3): 599-601. 1987.The reader who is acquainted with Niels Thulstrup's introduction and commentary to Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments will know precisely what to expect from Thulstrup's introduction and commentary to the Concluding Unscientific Postscript to those fragments. There is, however, one unsurprising difference--of the two, the Postscript is the grander, more sweeping source text and Thulstrup has mirrored this fact in the length and breadth of his prefatory remarks.
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37I. Salvation: A reply to Harrison Hall's reading of KierkegaardInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 28 (1-4): 441-449. 1985.On Harrison Hall's reading, Kierkegaard uses the terms translated ?eternal happiness? and ?salvation? to refer to a quality of this?worldly life. As I understand him, the author denies that Kierkegaard believed in an afterlife. While acknowledging the vein of meanings that ?Love and Death . . .? point to, I argue that Kierkegaard did in fact look forward to an eternal life in the traditional, Biblical, and so?called common sense of the term. In connection with his views on the question of salvat…Read more
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