PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Existential Crisis, George Pattison, Paul Tillich
1 Oct 2018
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Silence-> it"s kind of a paradox, silence for showing respect, silence as power execution. Silence can be emotionally defining, you can hold onto silence for decades. Maybe this is what kierkegaard is talking about. The lilly in field and the bird in the air. Meditation and repetition and the rhythm in it. Even though we have a vague concept of a creator, we can"t talk to them. Theological; it could throw you into an existential despair. Kierkegaard-biography- he was the 7th child to a religious family, five of the children died and his mother died all within the span of three years. He broke off his engagement to the love of his life regina (we don"t know why, maybe he didn"t have money or he had a big secret, which colors a number of his works. Kierkegaard was also a critique of many activities of organized religion, chiefly established church in his home of.
