And what would be his best book to start with or the most interesting one?
What's the point of reading him for non-christians?
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I say jump right into either/or vol 1. If you need someone to justify to you why you should read Kierkegaard, then you probably shouldn't read him
What i meant was: I don't know anything about him but non-christian thinkers i like found something in him (Adorno, Heidegger, Sartre), what can i get out of his writings if i'm not christian and am not interested in christian theology
Kierkegaard's faith is so far from what passes as Christianity in the year of our lord 2023 that it's ludicrous to class them together in any sense. I'm not nor have I ever been Christian but I have found Kierkegaard brilliant, infuriating, hilarious, and depressing. My life became noticeably better after I gave away all my Kierkegaard a few years ago. But reading him was absolutely worth it. Just don't get stuck on him
For knowledge, and entertainment
So for no reason.
I would say its worth reading him as an atheist for the acknowledgement that your choice of rationality is no better than the choice of faith. Everyone has to make an either/or decision on rationality or faith in life, and the rationalist is gambling on circular rationality to redeem them so choosing Athens better be worth it for you.
Of course there is a lot more than this but the biggest leap to take in life is rationality or faith which all people are condemned to choose.
There’s no point. His entire philosophy is just a giant cope caused by a Christian getting his mind split in half after realizing that his religion’s entire claim to fame is that it claims its messiah is objective truth but that it is also impossible to prove and there is basically zero evidence as to whether it is actually true or not. So you have this a strong value of truth built into you by a religion that no one has any reason to believe is true. Basically this breaks his brain. He wrote his works because he was “terrified” by Christianity. A modern person can never be terrified by Christianity because it’s become irrelevant to us.
This may be the worst post I have ever seen on the board
This post is actually literally retarded. It's almost like it was written by Sam Harris himself
Explain what’s so bad about it. Kierkegaard was the first philosopher I read and now that I am not a Christian I never think of any of his ideas at all in relation to other philosophers. His “credo quia absurdum” thing is basically his only interesting idea. In practice I’ve found the whole faith think pretty useless.
It seems you have entirely missed the point of Kierkegaard. There is no legitimate “because” in picking between faith and rationality. Are you sure you read him?
Credo quia absurdum is a Tertullian quote. What are you even talking about
>Credo quia absurdum is a Tertullian quote
Tertullian didn’t exactly say it, and Kierkegaard took what he said and made it into his own thing quite different from what Tertullian meant
>There is no legitimate “because” in picking between faith and rationality
Um ok, what does that have to do with anything I said?
>Are you sure you read him
Hurr durr
For most phylosophy is just entertainment, if you don't like it don't read it.
Do you need a reason?
If you don't want to read him, then don't read him.
You read him for his psychology. Why do non-orthodox read Dostoyevsky?
Also, Fear and Trembling.
For entertainment and his criticism of Hegel.