Kierkegaard and the Greek World. Tome II: Aristotle and Other Greek Authors

352 Pages·2016·2.31 MB·English

by  Katalin Nun

KierKegaard and the greeK World
tome ii: aristotle and
other greeK authors
Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources
Volume 2, Tome II
Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources
is a publication of the søren Kierkegaard research Centre
General Editor
Jon steWart
Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Editorial Board
Katalin nun
peter ŠaJda
Advisory Board
istvÁn CzaKÓ
Finn gredal Jensen
david d. possen
heiKo sChulz
This volume was published with the generous financial support
of the danish agency for science, technology and innovation
Kierkegaard and the greek World
tome ii: aristotle and other greek authors
Edited by
Jon steWart and Katalin nun
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Kierkegaard and the greek world.
tome 2, aristotle and other greek authors. – (Kierkegaard
research : sources, reception and resources ; v. 2)
1.Kierkegaard, søren, 1813–1855 – Knowledge – greek philosophy.
2.Kierkegaard, søren, 1813–1855 – Knowledge – greek literature.
i. series ii. stewart, Jon (Jon Bartley) iii. nun, Katalin
198.9–dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kierkegaard and the greek world / edited by Jon stewart and Katalin nun
p.cm. — (Kierkegaard research : sources, reception and resources)
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBn 978-0-7546-6982-1 (v. 2, t. 2 : hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Kierkegaard, søren, 1813–1855 — sources. 2. philosophy, ancient.
3. philosophers, ancient.
i. stewart, Jon (Jon Bartley) ii. nun, Katalin
B4377.K45526 2009
198’.9—dc22
2009022905
Cover design by Katalin nun
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-6982-1 (hbk)
Contents
List of Contributors ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Part I arIstotLe
Organon and Metaphysics iv:
the First principles of logic and the debate about mediation
Håvard Løkke and Arild Waaler 3
Physics and Metaphysics:
Change, modal Categories, and agency
Håvard Løkke and Arild Waaler 25
Nicomachean Ethics:
ignorance and relationships
Håvard Løkke 47
Poetics:
the rebirth of tragedy at the end of modernity
Daniel Greenspan 59
Rhetoric:
eloquence, Faith and probability
Heiko Schulz 81
Cumulative aristotle Bibliography
Katalin Nun 99
Part II other Greek PhILosoPhers
diogenes laertius:
Kierkegaard’s source and inspiration
Nicolae Irina 111
vi Kierkegaard and the Greek World
the eleatics:
Kierkegaard’s metaphysical Considerations of Being and motion
Jon Stewart 123
heraclitus:
presocratic ideas of motion, Change and opposites
in Kierkegaard’s thought
Finn Gredal Jensen 147
the skeptics:
Kierkegaard and Classical skepticism
Anthony Rudd 165
the sophists:
Kierkegaard’s interpretation of socrates and the sophists
K. Brian Söderquist 183
the stoics:
Kierkegaard on the passion for apathy
Rick Anthony Furtak 195
Part III Poets, DramatIsts, anD hIstorIans
aeschylus:
Kierkegaard and early greek tragedy
Finn Gredal Jensen 211
euripides:
Kierkegaard and the ancient tragic heroes
Nicolae Irina 235
herodotus:
traces of The Histories in Kierkegaard’s Writings
Finn Gredal Jensen 247
hesiod:
Kierkegaard and the greek gods
Nicolae Irina 263
homer:
Kierkegaard’s use of the homeric poems
Finn Gredal Jensen 271
Contents vii
plutarch:
a Constant Cultural reference
Nicolae Irina 301
sophocles:
the tragic of Kierkegaard’s modern Antigone
Nicolae Irina 313
Index of Persons 327
Index of Subjects 333

list of Contributors
rick anthony Furtak, department of philosophy, Colorado College, 14e. Cache
la poudre, Colorado springs, Co 80903, usa.
Daniel Greenspan, department of philosophy, loyola marymount university, 1
lmu drive, los angeles, California 90045–2659, usa.
nicolae Irina, department of philosophy, York university, s428 ross Building,
4700 Keele st, toronto, on, Canada m3J 1p3.
Finn Gredal Jensen, society for danish language and literature, Christians Brygge
1, 1219 Copenhagen K, denmark.
håvard Løkke, department of philosophy, university of oslo, p.o. Box 1020, 0315
Blindern oslo, norway.
katalin nun, søren Kierkegaard research Centre, Farvergade 27 d, 1463
Copenhagen K, denmark.
anthony rudd, department of philosophy, st. olaf College, 1520 st. olaf avenue,
Northfield, MN 55057, USA.
k. Brian söderquist, søren Kierkegaard research Centre, Farvergade 27 d, 1463
Copenhagen K, denmark.
Jon stewart, søren Kierkegaard research Centre, Farvergade 27 d, 1463
Copenhagen K, denmark.
heiko schulz, department of protestant theology, Johann Wolfgang goethe
university, grüneburgplatz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am main, germany.
arild Waaler, department of Computer science, university of oslo, p.o. Box 1080,
0316 oslo, norway.