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Kierkegaard is another religious author who like Augustine may be expected to teach humility rather than pride. But again he presupposes extraordinary pride in specific human properties, those of being a self. His view on due pride is implied in the following lines:
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Kierkegaard 1941, 26.
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Richard Taylor 1996, 129f.
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Cp. Taylor 1996, 227f, on creativity; Kierkegaard 1941, 28: “The more consciousness, the more self; the more consciousness, the more will, and the more will the more self. A man who has no will at all is no self; the more will he has, the more consciousness of self he has also.” Hence, caring for one’s self means having will, which requires activity.
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Kierkegaard 1980, 13.
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Kant, Critique of Pure Reason B 131f¸tr. Jonathan Bennett, p. 75, www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfs/kant1781part1.pdf
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It’s certainly different in his moral and religious theory, as Connolly pointed out in a private correspondence.
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Camus 1942, 60, referring to Kierkegaard’s leap into faith, says “si je reconnais les limites de la raison, je ne la nie pas pour autant, reconnaissant ses pouvoirs relatifs. Je veux seulement me tenir dans ce chemin moyen où l’intelligence peut rester claire. Si c’est. là son orgueil, je ne vois pas de raison suffisante pour y renoncer.” In the quoted passage, the same intention can be ascribed to Kierkegaard.
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Kierkegaard 1941, 9.
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Similarly, among many other authors, Vattimo 1999, 85–7.
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von Kutschera 1990, 318–20.—Taubes 2003, 116f, claims that Scripture delivers the answer that the meaning of suffering is to tell us to free ourselves of life; he even appeals to Nietzsche to support his claim. Yet this answer is similar not only to Gnosticism (as Taubes notes) but also, it seems, to Buddhism and Hinduism (as Taubes does not remark). It is incompatible with Augustine, Kierkegaard and the Christian belief that God took on human life to suffer.
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Steinvorth, U. (2016). Kierkegaard on due Pride. In: Pride and Authenticity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34117-0_5
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