Ethical Stage and Its Limits in Søren Kiekegaard's Philosophy Cover Image

Etinė stadija ir jos ribos Søreno Kierkegaard'o filosofijoje
Ethical Stage and Its Limits in Søren Kiekegaard's Philosophy

Author(s): Viktoras Bachmetjevas
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: Ethics; Sittlichkeit; consciousness of guilt; second ethics; sin

Summary/Abstract: The article reconsiders the usual scheme of Kierkegaard’s existential spheres. Textual sources, where Kierkegaard discusses another concept of ethics. This concept is identified as the second ethics. The second ethics is closely related to the religious sphere and founds the religious counsciousness. The article discusses the problem of the impossibility to communicate the religious counsciousness. Two aspects of this problem are highlighted – the impossibility to communicate the moment of paradox is being discussed from the perspective of formal logic, while the impossibility of communication from within the ethico-religious sphere is being discussed in terms of different discourses prevalent in different spheres.

  • Issue Year: 14/2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 92-97
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Lithuanian