The Ethical Context of Either/Or
| dc.contributor.author | Kosch, Michelle | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-20T20:10:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-20T20:10:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | 18 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This is a sequel to an earlier paper ('Kierkegaard's Ethicist' Archiv 2006) in which I argued that J. G. Fichte (rather than Kant of Hegel or some amalgam) was the primary historical model for the ethical standpoint described in Kierkegaard's Either/Or II. Here I offer some new support for that claim. In the first section I present some evidence for Fichte's prominence in the landscape of philosophical ethics in the 1830s and '40s in Germany and Denmark. I argue that Kierkegaard's use of Fichte as a foil was not idiosyncratic, but was rather the obvious choice in the historical context. In the second section I describe some additional substantive and textual reasons for thinking Fichte was the figure looming largest in the background of Kierkegaard's construction of the ethical standpoint in Either/Or. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kosch, M. (2015). The Ethical Context of Either/Or. Konturen, 7, 84-101. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.7.0.3667 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5399/uo/konturen.7.0.3667 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1947-3796 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/24412 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.title | The Ethical Context of Either/Or | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |