"To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd." — Soren Kierkegaard
#quotes #philosophy #kierkegaard #truth #USPolitics #trump #maga #fascism #authoritarianism
There exists kind of a condensed version of the story:
"A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke."
(Søren #Kierkegaard, Either-Or, Diapsalmata, 1843)
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32013-a-fire-broke-out-backstage-in-a-theatre-the-clown
The experience of not being heard reminds me of The Circus and the Clown parabola by #Kierkegaard (I just heard of it some weeks ago, so it is quite present to me).
Genau, die Grünen haben schlecht kommuniziert. Das @ZDF hat nur die Schmutzkampagne der fossilistischen Bildzeitung verteidigt!
Und daß es mit dem #Klimaschutz seit Jahrzehnten nicht vorangeht, wie @rahmstorf beklagt, liegt bekanntlich auch an der schlechten Kommunikation der Wissenschaftler*innen und nicht an der #FossilLobby. 🤒
@ingo
Da muß ich gleich wieder an den #Clown von #Kierkegaard denken:
https://mstdn.social/@stekopf/114251306315160065
14 citações de Soren Kierkegaard sobre o AMOR https://marocidental.blogspot.com/2025/04/14-citacoes-de-soren-kierkegaard-sobre.html?spref=tw #kierkegaard #sorenkierkegaard #amor #doamor #filosofia #psicologia #existencialismo #citações #frases #pensamentos #máximas #sabedoria #foradacaixa
Ich habe heute die Parabel "Der Zirkus brennt"(1855̀) von #Kierkegaard kennengelernt, kurz:
In einem Wanderzirkus bricht ein Feuer aus. Da die Gefahr besteht, daß es auf das nahe Dorf übergreift, rennt der schon kostümierte und geschminkte Clown ins Dorf und ruft, alle mögen kommen und löschen helfen. Doch niemand nimmt ihn ernst - alle glauben, er wolle nur Leute in die Vorstellung locken. Und so schauen sie & lachen über ihn - bis das Dorf unrettbar niederbrennt.
New from Psychology Today
What Psychologists Can Learn From Existentialism
by Abigail Fagan
"#Heidegger argued that true freedom is not about endless choices but about owning one’s existence and making peace with who we are. He distinguished between “being at home” (Heimlich)—feeling aligned with one’s authentic self—and “not feeling at home” (unheimlich)—experiencing alienation and disconnection."
#Kierkegaard #Nietzsche #deBeauvoir
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/philosophies-in-psychology/202502/what-psychologists-can-learn-from-existentialism
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
- Søren Kierkegaard
New book from Cambridge University Press
#Heidegger and #Kierkegaard
by George Pattison
Free until January 10th 2025
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/heidegger-and-kierkegaard/959809F81EF9C70A74CAFBF322EC1C42
Soren #Kierkegaard, alive today, offers a scathing critique of the modern obsession with self-promotion & the cult of the personal brand:
"Really, the writer's lot has devolved even further - if such a thing were possible. The author is no longer merely an intellect with a pen, but now a product, a pitchman, a relentless self-promoter performing a grotesque pantomime to please an indifferent algorithm.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) would eventually be considered one of the 19th century’s sources of what would became existentialism in the 20th century. Kierkegaard was religious, and his main question was ‘what does it mean to be a christian..." …
#philosophy #kierkegaard #existentialism #heidegger #nietzsche #aquinas #christianity #hegel #reason #historyofphilosophy #knowledge
https://philosophyindefinitely.wordpress.com/2020/10/26/kierkegaards-critique-of-reason/
The student who had been watching placidly from his chair at the whole escapade didn't even get up. He just leaned towards his microphone and said.
"That's not the book I have written,"
and then leaned back as if he had replied in full. Which, of course, he had.
The one line expressed what everyone in the room thought and there really was nothing else to say, because the examiner hadn't asked him anything relevant - only talked over him. 4/
New from the Boston Review
Against False Universals
by Seyla Benhabib
Turning to #Heidegger and the question of Being, which calls itself the most “radical” form of thought, #Adorno observes “that Heidegger falls back precisely on the latest plan for a subjective ontology produced by Western thinking: the existentialist philosophy of Søren #Kierkegaard.”
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/against-false-universals/
liberties…
“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, and they demand those they do not have.” — Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or #quote #Kierkegaard #philosophy
https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/liberties/
Tie between Albert Camus and Søren Kierkegaard!
#Camus for his humanism and literary work.
#Kierkegaard because of his intellectual and spiritual bravery.
Both worthy of close study...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus
One of my favorite books is "The Plague" by Camus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Søren_Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard has the best book title ever "The Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Crumbs". 😉
