Becoming human,becoming sober |
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Authors: | Matuštík Martin Beck |
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Institution: | (1) Lincoln Professor of Ethics & Religion, Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, M/C 2151, P.O. Box 37100, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100, USA |
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Abstract: | Two themes run through Kierkegaard’s authorship. The first defines existential requirements for “becoming human”—reflective
honesty and earnest humor. The second demarcates the religious phenomena of sobriety when human becoming suffers insurmountable
collisions. Living with existential pathos teaches the difference between the either/or logic of collisions and the both/and
logic of development and transitions. There is a difference between self-transformation and a progressive individual and social
development. In the developmental mode self experiences gradual progression or adaptive evolution; in the self-transformative
mode self undergoes qualitative upsurges, leaps, gestalt switches, musical key transpositions of becoming in individual and
social evolutions. Each individual in every epoch begins at the beginning. The author traces the movements of becoming in
their parallel dimensions, drawing a fork through Kierkegaard’s writing. The first leads through the existence spheres of
his pseudonymous authorship. The second intensifies the movement on the spot and in the moment.
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Keywords: | Becoming Humanism Kierkegaard Moment Radical evil Redemptive critical theory Sobriety |
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