Søren Kierkegaard · Philosophy
Against Hegel’s vast impersonal ‘System’, Kierkegaard insists that the most important truths are not objective propositions to be contemplated but ways of <em>existing</em> to be lived. ‘Truth is subjectivity’: for the questions that matter most, what counts is not what you know but how passionately and inwardly you relate to it.
You learned that Kierkegaard, attacking Hegel’s impersonal System, holds that for the questions that matter most ‘truth is subjectivity’: the decisive thing is not the objective content but the inwardness and passion with which an existing individual relates to it. Explain the claim and what it oppos…
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