Between Singularity and Plurality: Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Absolute Difference

IF 0.2 0 PHILOSOPHY Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Pub Date : 2021-08-11 DOI:10.1515/kierke-2021-0010
A. Kulak
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Abstract This study is dedicated to exploring the ways in which Kierkegaard provides a criterion for thinking about the principles of plurality when, in the context of distinguishing between Socrates and Christ, between different conceptions of difference—between those that support the difference of the other and those that do not—he writes that, just as no one must separate what God has joined, so no one must join what God has separated. When Kierkegaard then makes central to faith the incommensurability of single individuals, he indicates that the inviolable singularity of self and other is the one principle that can be true for all—that can be plural—since it is the one principle that is inclusive of all. In my paper I argue through Kierkegaard that the relationship between the singular and the plural embraces the paradox of absolute difference, the paradox of difference as absolute: the single individual exists only by standing in absolute relation to all others as absolute; the plural exists only insofar as it involves the commitment to the singular standard that, as absolute, preserves the difference of all.
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在单一性与多元性之间:克尔凯郭尔与绝对差异悖论
本研究致力于探索克尔凯郭尔如何在区分苏格拉底和基督的背景下,在不同的差异概念之间,在支持他者的差异和不支持他者的差异之间,为思考多元性原则提供了一个标准。他写道,正如没有人必须分离上帝所结合的东西一样,没有人必须加入上帝所分离的东西。当克尔凯郭尔把单个个体的不可通约性作为信仰的核心时,他指出,自我和他人的不可侵犯的独特性是一个对所有人都适用的原则——可以是多元的——因为它是一个包含所有人的原则。在我的论文中,我通过克尔凯郭尔论证了单数和复数之间的关系包含了绝对差异的悖论,作为绝对的差异的悖论:单个个体的存在,只有通过与所有其他个体的绝对关系;复数存在的唯一原因是它包含了对单一标准的承诺,作为绝对的,保留了所有人的差异。
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