PHIL 2170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 41-49: Dialectic, Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
8 Feb 2015
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Kierkegaard is mocking the idea that be can have a relation to ourselves. It"s a tripartite thesis, antithesis, synthesis, that breaks the hegelian model. In order to will to be what we are not we have to reject who we are. But we do not have to will to be what we are not in order to not will to be who we are. The moment of weakness has priority and ground the dialectic , which is not really a dialectic, but is really a paradoxical suspension that is held together with faith. We are unable to accept who we are. Help with this state of sin can only come from god. We have to accept who we are; but this involves a prior moment of rejecting ourselves. We have to accept our pathetic limitations while accepting to be who we are not. Rejection of the romantic idea that the self is a source of meaning.
