"at forstaaeliggjøre og tyde Naturens Runer": En genovervejelse af Kierkegaards kritik af naturvidenskaben

René Rosfort

"at forstaaeliggjøre og tyde Naturens Runer": En genovervejelse af Kierkegaards kritik af naturvidenskaben

René Rosfort

The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre

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Abstract

Kierkegaard's attitude to natural science is equivocal. While the published works deal with the open criticism of Hegel and his Danish followers, in his journals and notebooks we find a more clandestine, albeit no less intense, critique of the scientific endeavours of his day. The biting sarcasm that characterises this critique has often led to the view that Kierkegaard, as a Christian thinker of subjectivity, naturally has to be stubbornly against scientific progress. On a closer look, though, we find a more complex view hidden underneath the noisy surface of Kierkegaard's vigorous rhetoric. The point of this article is to articulate this more complex view against the backdrop of a historical sketch of the relationship between science and religion at the time of Kierkegaard, and through an interpretation of the Kierkegaard's statements in his journals and notebooks.

Original language	Danish
Journal	Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift
Volume	2013
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	133-149
Number of pages	17
ISSN	0105-3191
Publication status	Published - 2013

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