Kierkegaard's Analysis of Radical Evil

For thousands of years philosophers and theologians have grappled with the problem of evil. Traditionally, evil has been seen as a weakness of sorts: the evil person is either ignorant, or weak-willed. But in the most horrifying acts of evil, the perpetra

Abbreviations

vii

Preface

ix

An Historical Introduction: Kant and Schelling on Radical Evil

1

(22)

Kant

2

(8)

Schelling's Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom

10

(13)

The Struggle of Self-Becoming: Spiritless Self-Evasion

23

(35)

The Self as a Relation

23

(4)

The Spiritless Evasion of the Self

27

(6)

The Despair that Abides in Infinitude

33

(9)

The Despair that Abides in Finitude

42

(16)

The Despair of the Aesthetic Stage of Existence

58

(16)

The Aesthetic Stage of Existence

60

(8)

The Ethical Stage of Existence: Self-Choice

68

(6)

Ethical Self-Choice

74

(28)

The Positive Self-Choice

74

(4)

The Self as a Task

78

(3)

The Despair of the Ethical Stage of Existence

81

(21)

The Final Movement Toward Definace: Infinite Resignation

102

(26)

The Self's Primary Object of Relation

102

(4)

The Initial Expression of an Existential Pathos: Infinite Resignation

106

(8)

The Essential Expression of an Existential Pathos: Suffering

114

(6)

The Decisive Expression of an Existential Pathos: Guilt

120

(1)

The Despair of Religiousness A

121

(7)

Defiance: The Essence of Radical Evil

128

(25)

Transparent Despair

128

(14)

Conclusion: The Category of Offense

142

(11)

Bibliography

153

(4)

Index

157

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