Religious experience as a condition of existential transformation in philosophy of the S. Kierkegaard
Journal Title: ИДЕИ. ФИЛОСОФСКО СПИСАНИЕ - Year 2013, Vol 5, Issue 5
Abstract
In the article is given the analysis of the spiritual and religious aspects of human existential transformation in the philosophy of S. Kierkegaard. The importance and relevance of the concept of S. Kierkegaard in the context of contemporary philosophy and anthropology is grounded. Emphasized on the factors by which the transformation of human existence can realized. Religious stage sees like the stage of conscious life position, accommodation, which is often accompanied with suffering. On the way to the true faith a person experiencing such conditions as anxiety, choice, despair, suffering, test. The religious sphere suggests the intensity of the spiritual experience. On the radical paradoxical and illogical religious transformation S. Kierkegaard insisted. In the concept religious dimension of the person in the spiritual and existential incarnation is approved. Existential reality of a single person there is not a necessity, as a possibility. Existence is a choice. Spiritual development at inducing exit from the state of indifference, indifference, "Lightweight being" mediocrity is aimed. The ultimate goal – is to know yourself as a unit before God. In his philosophy S. Kierkegaard refers primarily to those aspects of life which define man as a key and creativity.
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Oksana Onyshchuk
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