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One the one hand, there is what we might generally call Objectivity, things that can be known, the world of science; and in Kierkegaard’s case I think it’s important to point out that he respected this world, that he never in fact argued against it. What he argued against was the intrusion of the scientific method and so on into the other realm, the realm of subjectivity, the realm of individual choice.


When, for example, people argue in scientific terms that the miracles of the Bible literally might have happened, or when creationists argue that creationism in fact is a scientific hypothesis, what they do is they confuse those two realms. And what Kierkegaard is all about is, adamantly, wanting to keep them apart: wanting to keep religion on the side of subjectivity. And as he says, “All power to the sciences, but that’s not what I’m doing.”

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Robert C. Solomon, “Søren Kierkegaard - On Becoming a Christian” (via fear-and-trembling) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)