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A Study on the Relationship among Psychology, Ethics and Dogmatics in the Philosophy of S. Kierkegaard : focused on the “Introduction” of the Concept of Anxiety (1844)

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2019, 56(), pp.237-271
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.56.0.08
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : December 5, 2018
  • Accepted : January 14, 2019
  • Published : February 28, 2019

Sun Kyu Ha 1

1홍익대학교

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ABSTRACT

The Concept of Anxiety published by Kierkegaard in 1844 is considered a groundbreaking work of Western philosophical anthropology. But the “Introduction” of the book comes up like a “huge wall” which frustrates normal readers of today. In this paper, I intend to clarify as much as possible the entire structure and core contents of the intricate “Introduction”. In order to facilitate the work of clarification, I focus on elucidating scientific character and relation of psychology, ethics and dogmatics. First, I give a concise explanation the whole 20 paragraphs of the “Introduction”, subdividing it into 8 steps according to the development of its argumentation. Second, I discuss the intrinsic connection between anxiety and sin and the academic nature and limitations of psychological considerations. Third, I examine the inherent anthropological meaning of the concept of sin and significant features of the new “second ethics” that is inevitably required due to the reality of sin of individuals. And fourth, this paper then reconstructs how the “Introduction” critically explains the academic nature and realistic situation of dogmatics. The “Introduction” of The Concept of Anxiety can be regarded as a critical treatise on the crisis and the helplessness of Western metaphysics and philosophical tradition, which forget the genuine existential freedom of individuals. At the same time, the “Introduction” is a powerful declaration urging that the character and contents of existing psychology, ethics, and dogmatics should be completely reformed.

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