PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Liberal Democracy, Middle Ages, George Grosz
13 Oct 2017
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Kierkegaard 3: the malaise of the modern age. Transcript of kierkegaard 3: the malaise of the modern age. George grosz, "remember uncle august, the unhappy inventor" (1919: kierkegaard"s dialectical argument, the malaise of the present age: Kierkegaard is interested in the "dialectical and categorical definitions of the present age" the "how" of the present age from a universal standpoint (p. 12). This tells us that he is doing philosophy rather than history, and philosophy of a very particular kind. He is making what is referred to in philosophy as a dialectical argument. A mode of argumentation used by hegel (who was not only. A dialectical argument begins with a debate between two contradictory positions (a thesis and an antithesis): thesis, antithesis, synthesis. : the way of life embodied by the revolutionary age: passion, enthusiasm: antithesis. : the way of life embodied in the bourgeois age: dispassionate reflection, deliberation. The synthesis of these two contradictory ages is found, for.
