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 Søren Kierkegaard authored Works of Love
he starts by explaining the necessity of believing
in love.
To give way to fear of deceit and believe that
love exists. Kierkegaard explains that believing
something that is untrue is to be deceived such
is to disbelieve something that is true. "To cheat
oneself out of love is the most terrible
deception."
 The cornerstone of love is self-
love, but the foundation of love is
the Love of God. Without self-
love no other love can exist;
yet without God, no love can exist.
 Kierkegaard wrote "Therefore it is
not said: "Thou shalt love God as
thyself," but rather, "Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, with all thy soul, and all thy
mind.“
 “A man should love God in unconditional
Obedience and love him in adoration.“
To show love to God is to obey his word. He
says "All you have to do is to obey in
love."
 While observing obedience you must love thy
neighbor as thyself. Kierkegaard asks ‘Who, then,
is one's neighbor?'
 The word neighbor is derived from the Old German
wordneahgebur meaning near-dweller.
 How do we interpret this phrase; near-dweller?
Near in proximity? Near in education? Near in
ideals? Or near in heart?
 To Søren Kierkegaard we must decipher this as
Christ does with the Parable of the merciful
Samaritan.
 Explaining the story of the fallen man, who was robbed,
being passed by a priest and a Levite (a member of the
Hebrew tribe of Levi, often known to be aide to the
priests); was finally recovered by a Samaritan. Christ
then asks "Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was
neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?" (Luke
10:36) Answering "He that shewed mercy on him."
Jesus then directs us saying "Go, and do thou likewise."
 Remembering Kierkegaard's idea; 'All you have to do is
to obey in love.'
 "Choosing a lover, finding a friend, yes, that is a long, hard
job, but one's neighbor is easy to recognize, easy to find -- if
one himself will only recognize his duty.“
 To Søren Kierkegaard your neighbors are those whom you
have a duty to; those who are in need of mercy.
 Finding those people who are in need of what you have is
your task and giving them what you can is your duty.
 Not to say that loving your neighbor is to neglect your friends
and loves ones which you are not currently duty-bound.
 But to put into action the idea to ‘Love God above all else and
then love your neighbor and in your neighbor every man.’
 In discussing types of love, Kierkegaard discusses Love
of God, love of neighbors, love of friends, and what he
refers to as erotic love.
 His phrase 'erotic love' would be in line with what we call
romantic love.
 Søren writes "Erotic love is still not eternal; it is the
beautiful giddiness of infinity; its highest expression is
the rashness of riddles.“
Types of love
 He believes that erotic love should be
faithful, while loving thy neighbor, the
love is blind attitude should still be in
place when it comes to your erotic love.
 You can, and should, fulfill your duty to
love every man while wearing blinders
blocking all those that are not your erotic
love from view; leaving you faithful and
committed to them.
 He makes a strong distinction between
You and I and Yours and Mine.
 Explaining that you cannot have Yours and Mine in erotic love
and you must have You and I. You and I are individuals, with
individual needs and wants. Yours and Mine are self-serving
and have no place in an erotic love.
 Kierkegaard says " When mine has become yours and yours
mine, there are indeed a mine and a yours everywhere...
Through the exchange the contentious mine and yours
have become a communal mine and yours... Since mine
and yours exchanged and become Ours, in which
category friendship and erotic love have their strength,
they are strong at least in this."
 He finds there to be strength in the OURS mentality. It is
not self-serving, it creates a more open space for trust to
fill without jeopardizing each person’s individuality.
 Although, Søren Kierkegaard believes erotic love and
friendship to come behind both the love of God and
the love of thy neighbor, he writes "erotic love is
undeniably life's most happy fortune and friendship the
greatest temporal good."
 He described the exchange of rings that happens in
erotic love to be a very fitting gesture for that type of
love, but finds it to be a poor symbol of love. The rings
symbolizing that which the OURS mentality has already
given us. A true symbol of love, as seen by Kierkegaard
is an act of love; a work of love.
 "When it is a duty in loving
to love the men that we see,
There is no limit to love. If
the duty is to be fulfilled, the
love must be timeless. It is
unchanged, no matter how
the object becomes
changed."
 While understanding that love is limitless we must
understand that includes loving people for who they are,
not who we see them as.
 Loving a person for who they are in each moment in
contrast to loving them for the potential we see in
them. As humans, we have a tendency to love the
people in our lives for what they plan to accomplish and
the potential we see them having.
 That is not true love, to truly love another you must not
only love them for who they could become but also for
the person they have been and who they are in this
moment.
 Kierkegaard paints this idea with the
relationship between Christ and Peter.
 Peter, in life's most pivotal moment,
denies his friend. Betrayed by his
friend; we would anticipate Christ to be
offended, to be hurt. This is not what
occurred. He was sorrowful for his
friend. He was concerned about the
well-being of the man who just sealed
his fate.
 He does not ignore Peter but instead looks at him with eyes
of concern.
 Our nature is to harbor feelings of disdain for those who have
crossed us, but "Christ's love for Peter was so boundless that
in loving Peter he accomplished loving the person one sees."
 Kierkegaard writes "He did not say, "Peter must change first
and become another man before I can love him again." No,
just the opposite, he said, "Peter is peter, and I love him; love,
if anything, will help him to become another man.""
 To love someone is to build them up. If we are honest in
loving every man, we are building them up. Love does
not tear one another down, it does not start rumors, it
does not treat with disrespect, it is not resentful; love
builds up. When one truly feels love they feel uplifted.
Love carries misunderstandings, it forgives unwarranted
anger.
 “Whatever the world takes away from you, though it be the
most cherished, whatever happens to you in life, however
you may have to suffer because of your striving, for the good,
if you please, if men turn indifferent from you or as enemies
against you, if no one is willing to admit acquaintance with
you or acknowledge what he nevertheless owes you, if even
your best friend should deny you – if nevertheless in any
of your strivings, in any of your actions, in any of your words
you truly have consciously had love along: then take comfort,
for love abides.”
 For Søren Kierkegaard, no matter where life takes us,
the trials that we face, love will abide.
 Understanding Kierkegaard’s ideas of
love is to know that love is rooted in
God.
 Knowing that all love comes from the
love of God and the love we have for
God. Stemming from there is self-love;
to truly love another is to love oneself.
 You must have self-appreciation and
love to share that with others.
 Once we have that self-love we must love our neighbors as
ourselves. We are duty-bound to those in need of what we
have to give.
 To love our neighbors, or everyman, we must not neglect our
friends and our erotic love.
 See them as they are and love them for that. Because love
builds up, we must find ways to build up those we love. There
is enough darkness in the world around us; we must stand as
a beacon of light for those around us.
 Giving those we love brightness from this dark, and allow
them to feel our warmth in the cold world surrounding us.
 Nevertheless, love abides. With all of the pain and hurt
in this world, we still inhabit a world created from love,
therefore love will abide.
 When nothing seems to go right in life, when it feels as
though slipping into the darkness would go unnoticed,
Kierkegaard says tis not so.
 Love will abide. Because God is a God of Love, this
world will always have love.
 Knowing that love exists is enough for there to continue
to be love. Often to feel love all that is needed is to show
love.
 Building a fire in another’s heart is enough to warm our
own. By carrying out our duty to love another, by works
of love, we are showing love and obedience to God in
whom will always be love, for love abides.
https://www.scribd.com/document/365801279/the-philosophy-of-
love-1010
THE END

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Philosophy of love

  • 2.  Søren Kierkegaard authored Works of Love he starts by explaining the necessity of believing in love. To give way to fear of deceit and believe that love exists. Kierkegaard explains that believing something that is untrue is to be deceived such is to disbelieve something that is true. "To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception."
  • 3.  The cornerstone of love is self- love, but the foundation of love is the Love of God. Without self- love no other love can exist; yet without God, no love can exist.  Kierkegaard wrote "Therefore it is not said: "Thou shalt love God as thyself," but rather, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and all thy mind.“
  • 4.  “A man should love God in unconditional Obedience and love him in adoration.“ To show love to God is to obey his word. He says "All you have to do is to obey in love."
  • 5.  While observing obedience you must love thy neighbor as thyself. Kierkegaard asks ‘Who, then, is one's neighbor?'  The word neighbor is derived from the Old German wordneahgebur meaning near-dweller.  How do we interpret this phrase; near-dweller? Near in proximity? Near in education? Near in ideals? Or near in heart?  To Søren Kierkegaard we must decipher this as Christ does with the Parable of the merciful Samaritan.
  • 6.  Explaining the story of the fallen man, who was robbed, being passed by a priest and a Levite (a member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi, often known to be aide to the priests); was finally recovered by a Samaritan. Christ then asks "Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?" (Luke 10:36) Answering "He that shewed mercy on him." Jesus then directs us saying "Go, and do thou likewise."  Remembering Kierkegaard's idea; 'All you have to do is to obey in love.'
  • 7.  "Choosing a lover, finding a friend, yes, that is a long, hard job, but one's neighbor is easy to recognize, easy to find -- if one himself will only recognize his duty.“  To Søren Kierkegaard your neighbors are those whom you have a duty to; those who are in need of mercy.  Finding those people who are in need of what you have is your task and giving them what you can is your duty.  Not to say that loving your neighbor is to neglect your friends and loves ones which you are not currently duty-bound.  But to put into action the idea to ‘Love God above all else and then love your neighbor and in your neighbor every man.’
  • 8.  In discussing types of love, Kierkegaard discusses Love of God, love of neighbors, love of friends, and what he refers to as erotic love.  His phrase 'erotic love' would be in line with what we call romantic love.  Søren writes "Erotic love is still not eternal; it is the beautiful giddiness of infinity; its highest expression is the rashness of riddles.“ Types of love
  • 9.  He believes that erotic love should be faithful, while loving thy neighbor, the love is blind attitude should still be in place when it comes to your erotic love.  You can, and should, fulfill your duty to love every man while wearing blinders blocking all those that are not your erotic love from view; leaving you faithful and committed to them.  He makes a strong distinction between You and I and Yours and Mine.
  • 10.  Explaining that you cannot have Yours and Mine in erotic love and you must have You and I. You and I are individuals, with individual needs and wants. Yours and Mine are self-serving and have no place in an erotic love.  Kierkegaard says " When mine has become yours and yours mine, there are indeed a mine and a yours everywhere... Through the exchange the contentious mine and yours have become a communal mine and yours... Since mine and yours exchanged and become Ours, in which category friendship and erotic love have their strength, they are strong at least in this."
  • 11.  He finds there to be strength in the OURS mentality. It is not self-serving, it creates a more open space for trust to fill without jeopardizing each person’s individuality.
  • 12.  Although, Søren Kierkegaard believes erotic love and friendship to come behind both the love of God and the love of thy neighbor, he writes "erotic love is undeniably life's most happy fortune and friendship the greatest temporal good."  He described the exchange of rings that happens in erotic love to be a very fitting gesture for that type of love, but finds it to be a poor symbol of love. The rings symbolizing that which the OURS mentality has already given us. A true symbol of love, as seen by Kierkegaard is an act of love; a work of love.
  • 13.  "When it is a duty in loving to love the men that we see, There is no limit to love. If the duty is to be fulfilled, the love must be timeless. It is unchanged, no matter how the object becomes changed."
  • 14.  While understanding that love is limitless we must understand that includes loving people for who they are, not who we see them as.  Loving a person for who they are in each moment in contrast to loving them for the potential we see in them. As humans, we have a tendency to love the people in our lives for what they plan to accomplish and the potential we see them having.  That is not true love, to truly love another you must not only love them for who they could become but also for the person they have been and who they are in this moment.
  • 15.  Kierkegaard paints this idea with the relationship between Christ and Peter.  Peter, in life's most pivotal moment, denies his friend. Betrayed by his friend; we would anticipate Christ to be offended, to be hurt. This is not what occurred. He was sorrowful for his friend. He was concerned about the well-being of the man who just sealed his fate.
  • 16.  He does not ignore Peter but instead looks at him with eyes of concern.  Our nature is to harbor feelings of disdain for those who have crossed us, but "Christ's love for Peter was so boundless that in loving Peter he accomplished loving the person one sees."  Kierkegaard writes "He did not say, "Peter must change first and become another man before I can love him again." No, just the opposite, he said, "Peter is peter, and I love him; love, if anything, will help him to become another man.""
  • 17.  To love someone is to build them up. If we are honest in loving every man, we are building them up. Love does not tear one another down, it does not start rumors, it does not treat with disrespect, it is not resentful; love builds up. When one truly feels love they feel uplifted. Love carries misunderstandings, it forgives unwarranted anger.
  • 18.  “Whatever the world takes away from you, though it be the most cherished, whatever happens to you in life, however you may have to suffer because of your striving, for the good, if you please, if men turn indifferent from you or as enemies against you, if no one is willing to admit acquaintance with you or acknowledge what he nevertheless owes you, if even your best friend should deny you – if nevertheless in any of your strivings, in any of your actions, in any of your words you truly have consciously had love along: then take comfort, for love abides.”  For Søren Kierkegaard, no matter where life takes us, the trials that we face, love will abide.
  • 19.  Understanding Kierkegaard’s ideas of love is to know that love is rooted in God.  Knowing that all love comes from the love of God and the love we have for God. Stemming from there is self-love; to truly love another is to love oneself.  You must have self-appreciation and love to share that with others.
  • 20.  Once we have that self-love we must love our neighbors as ourselves. We are duty-bound to those in need of what we have to give.  To love our neighbors, or everyman, we must not neglect our friends and our erotic love.  See them as they are and love them for that. Because love builds up, we must find ways to build up those we love. There is enough darkness in the world around us; we must stand as a beacon of light for those around us.  Giving those we love brightness from this dark, and allow them to feel our warmth in the cold world surrounding us.
  • 21.  Nevertheless, love abides. With all of the pain and hurt in this world, we still inhabit a world created from love, therefore love will abide.  When nothing seems to go right in life, when it feels as though slipping into the darkness would go unnoticed, Kierkegaard says tis not so.  Love will abide. Because God is a God of Love, this world will always have love.
  • 22.  Knowing that love exists is enough for there to continue to be love. Often to feel love all that is needed is to show love.  Building a fire in another’s heart is enough to warm our own. By carrying out our duty to love another, by works of love, we are showing love and obedience to God in whom will always be love, for love abides. https://www.scribd.com/document/365801279/the-philosophy-of- love-1010 THE END