Singular Being, Social Being: the Invective to Categorical Alterity in the Journals and Papers of S. A. Kierkegaard

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  • José García Martín University of Málaga Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Metyper.2009.v0i2.2843

Keywords:

singular individual, the numerical thing, community, man kind, Christianity, society, depersonalization

Abstract

According to Kierkegaard, the individual, the true individual, faces or confronts the numerical (group, mass, multitude, public, people). Thus, singularity is accentuated over the social. In this sense, the Danish philosopher carried a hard criticism of the associative categories, with the exception of the religious Christian community, because they represent a depersonalization. Therefore, it is possible to talk about an individual-society dialectic in which the former is always qualitatively in front of the latter. The fundamental problem arises from the erroneous application of the associative categories to the religious Christian area, to the extent that mankind has replaced the singular individual with relation to Christianity and God.

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Published

2017-05-31

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García Martín, J. (2017). Singular Being, Social Being: the Invective to Categorical Alterity in the Journals and Papers of S. A. Kierkegaard. Metafísica Y Persona, (2). https://doi.org/10.24310/Metyper.2009.v0i2.2843

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