"This book takes the debate about the (ir)rationality of the transition to ethical life in Kierkegaard's thought in a significantly new direction. Connecting the field of Kierkegaard studies with the meta-ethical debate about practical reasons, and engaging with Alasdair MacIntyre's and Bernard Williams' thought, it explores the rationality of the choices for ethical life and Christian existence. Defending a so-called 'internalist' understanding of practical reasons, Compaijen argues that previous attempts to defend Kierkegaard against MacIntyre's charge of irrationality have failed. He provides a thorough analysis of such fundamental topics as becoming oneself, the ideal of objectivity in ethics and religion, the importance of the imagination, the power and limits of philosophical argument, and the relation between grace and nature. This book will be of great interest to Kierkegaard scholars in philosophy and theology, and, more generally, to anyone fascinated by the rationality of the transition to ethical life and the choice to accept Christianity." [Source: 4e de couverture]

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Rob Compaijen

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Preface and Acknowledgements 7
Contents 9
List of Abbreviations 10
1: Introduction 12
Bibliography 21
2: MacIntyre’s Critique of Kierkegaard 22
1 Introduction 22
2 MacIntyre’s Historical Argument in After Virtue 23
2.1 Emotivism 23
2.2 Classical and Modern Ethics 26
2.2.1 Classical Ethics 27
2.2.2 The Enlightenment Project and Modern Ethics 29
3 Kierkegaard in After Virtue 31
4 MacIntyre on Reasons for Action 34
4.1 Initial Reasons for Action 35
4.2 Good Reasons for Action 36
4.3 Reasons for Action in Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity 40
5 ‘Once More on Kierkegaard’ 40
6 Conclusion 44
Bibliography 46
3: Internalism About Practical Reasons 47
1 Introduction 47
2 Williams on Internalism and Externalism About Practical Reasons 48
2.1 Reasons Internalism 49
2.2 Reasons Externalism 54
3 Williams’ Critique of Reasons Externalism 56
3.1 Explaining Action 56
3.2 Explaining How Agents Acquire Motivations 60
3.3 Explaining How Reasons Belong to Agents 62
4 Blame and Moralism 65
5 Practical Reasons and Normativity 69
6 Against Ideal Deliberation 72
7 Evaluating MacIntyre’s Views on Practical Reasons 78
7.1 MacIntyre’s Externalism 78
7.2 Criticizing MacIntyre 83
7.2.1 MacIntyre Cannot Properly Explain Action 84
7.2.2 MacIntyre Cannot Explain How Agents Acquire (New) Motivations 85
7.2.3 MacIntyre Cannot Explain How Reasons Belong to Agents 88
8 Conclusion 92
Bibliography 96
4: Kierkegaard on Being Human 98
1 Introduction 98
2 Philosophical Anthropology and the Task of Human Existence 100
2.1 Becoming Oneself 100
2.2 Stages of Existence 105
3 ‘Fantastic Abstractions’ 109
3.1 Modernity’s Ideal of Objectivity 109
3.2 Kierkegaard’s Critique of the Ideal of Objectivity 112
4 Reflecting on the Ethical and the Religious 119
4.1 The Ethical and Objectivity 119
4.2 The Religious and Objectivity 127
5 A Kierkegaardian Account of Communication 130
5.1 Direct and Indirect Communication 131
5.1.1 Direct Communication 131
5.1.2 Indirect Communication 133
5.2 Communicating Knowledge and Communicating Capability 139
5.2.1 Communicating Knowledge 139
5.2.2 Communicating Capability 141
5.3 Connecting the Distinctions 144
5.4 Communication and Kierkegaard’s Authorship 151
6 ‘Blunt Reading’? 153
7 Conclusion 157
Bibliography 161
Works by Kierkegaard 161
Works by Other Authors 162
5: Embracing Ethical Life 165
1 Introduction 165
2 Aesthetic and Ethical Life 167
2.1 The Aesthetic Life-View 167
2.1.1 Either/Or: Part I 167
2.1.2 Stages on Life’s Way: In Vino Veritas 173
2.1.3 Understanding the Aesthetic Life-View 175
2.2 The Ethical Life-View 178
3 Qualitative Transitions 184
4 Kierkegaard and Internalism About Practical Reasons 188
5 Criticizing Kosch and Rudd 194
5.1 Kosch’ Constructivist Account of the Transition to the Ethical Life-View 195
5.2 Rudd’s Teleological Account of the Transition to the Ethical Life-View 199
6 Embracing Ethical Life 205
6.1 Internalism About Practical Reasons 206
6.2 A’s Actual Motivational Set 207
6.3 Reasons to Embrace Ethical Life 211
6.4 Communicating Ethical Life 221
6.4.1 Communicating with Aesthetes Like A 225
6.4.2 Communicating with Aesthetes Unlike A 230
7 Conclusion 234
Bibliography 238
Works by Kierkegaard 238
Works by Other Authors 239
6: Entrusting Oneself to Christian Life 242
1 Introduction 242
2 A Preliminary Problem: Grace and Choice 244
3 Christian and Natural Life: An Infinite Contrast 245
3.1 Christian Life 245
3.1.1 Imitation and Offense 246
3.1.2 Neighbor-Love 251
3.1.3 The Strenuousness of Christian Life 256
3.2 Natural Life 259
3.2.1 The Natural Human Being 259
3.2.2 The Unrecognizable Goodness of Neighbor-Love 261
4 Evans on Reasons, Moral Obligations, and Divine Commands 266
5 Reasons to Entrust Oneself to Christian Life 273
5.1 Natural Motivations 274
5.2 Deliberation and Choosing Christianity 278
6 Conclusion 283
Bibliography 289
Works by Kierkegaard 289
Works by Other Authors 290
7: Conclusion 292
Bibliography 299
Works by Kierkegaard 299
Index 300

This book takes the debate about the (ir)rationality of the transition to ethical life in Kierkegaard's thought in a significantly new direction. Connecting the field of Kierkegaard studies with the meta-ethical debate about practical reasons, and engaging with Alasdair MacIntyre's and Bernard Williams' thought, it explores the rationality of the choices for ethical life and Christian existence. Defending a so-called 'internalist' understanding of practical reasons, Compaijen argues that previous attempts to defend Kierkegaard against MacIntyre's charge of irrationality have failed. He provides a thorough analysis of such fundamental topics as becoming oneself, the ideal objectivity in ethics and religion, the importance of the imagination, the power and limits of philosophical argument, and the relation between grace and nature. This book will be of great interest to Kierkegaard scholars (both academics and graduate students) in philosophy and theology, and, more generally, to anyone fascinated by the rationality of the transition to ethical life and the choice to accept Christianity

"This book takes the debate about the (ir)rationality of the transition to ethical life in Kierkegaard's thought in a significantly new direction. Connecting the field of Kierkegaard studies with the meta-ethical debate about practical reasons, and engaging with Alasdair MacIntyre's and Bernard Williams' thought, it explores the rationality of the choices for ethical life and Christian existence. Defending a so-called 'internalist' understanding of practical reasons, Compaijen argues that previous attempts to defend Kierkegaard against MacIntyre's charge of irrationality have failed. He provides a thorough analysis of such fundamental topics as becoming oneself, the ideal of objectivity in ethics and religion, the importance of the imagination, the power and limits of philosophical argument, and the relation between grace and nature. This book will be of great interest to Kierkegaard scholars in philosophy and theology, and, more generally, to anyone fascinated by the rationality of the transition to ethical life and the choice to accept Christianity"--Back cover

Annotation This work takes the debate about the (ir)rationality of the transition to ethical life in Kierkegaard's thought in a significantly new direction. Connecting the field of Kierkegaard studies with the meta-ethical debate about practical reasons, and engaging with Alasdair MacIntyre's and Bernard Williams' thought, it explores the rationality of the choices for ethical life and Christian existence. Defending a so-called 'internalist' understanding of practical reasons, Compaijen argues that previous attempts to defend Kierkegaard against MacIntyre's charge of irrationality have failed. He provides a thorough analysis of such fundamental topics as becoming oneself, the ideal of objectivity in ethics and religion, the importance of the imagination, the power and limits of philosophical argument, and the relation between grace and nature

2018-04-13