Given your Buddhist background, I'm eager to read your impressions of it! — baker
How do you know H knew nothing about the (extra-judicial murders by the regime before and) death camps during the war when so many 'educated' German civilians throughout das Drittes Reich clearly saw, heard & smelled those atrocities on a daily basis? — 180 Proof
that it makes no difference if he did, — Ciceronianus the White
In Kierkegaard's Journals he said, "the one thing needful" for the doctrine of Atonement to make sense was the "anguished conscience." He wrote, "Remove the anguished conscience, and you may as well close the churches and turn them into dance halls."
Those of us living in the developed countries of the West find ourselves in the tightening grip of a paradox, one whose shape and character have so far largely eluded our understanding. It is the strange persistence of guilt as a psychological force in modern life. If anything, the word ‘persistence’ understates the matter. Guilt has not merely lingered. It has grown, even metastasized, into an ever more powerful and pervasive element in the life of the contemporary West, even as the rich language formerly used to define it has withered and faded from discourse, and the means of containing its effects, let alone obtaining relief from it, have become ever more elusive.
the feeling that anxiety/angst/dread is simply what the Buddha terms dukkha. — Wayfarer
The problem is that ‘discursive mind’ can never realise that goal - something which Kierkegaard makes clear - that’s his meaning of ‘unscientific’ — Wayfarer
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