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KIERKEGAARD ON TAKING AN OUTING TO DEER PARK
Author(s) -
MORRIS T. F.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2007.00320.x
Subject(s) - passion , limit (mathematics) , exegesis , philosophy , energy (signal processing) , aesthetics , epistemology , theology , social psychology , psychology , physics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , quantum mechanics
I offer an exegesis of a few pages of the Concluding Unscientific Postscript and explain how going to Deer Park religiously fits into the general structure of Kierkegaard's thought. Because desiring God requires passion, and passion requires energy, there is a limit to how long any individual person can maintain a continuous desire for God. Kierkegaard discusses how a person who is at that limit can maintain a less intense love of God as he allows himself to desire temporal things.