Truth Is Found In Paradox
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The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think. This passion is at bottom present in all thinking, even in the thinking of the individual, in so far as in thinking he participates in something transcending himself. But habit dulls our sensibilities, and prevents us from perceiving it”. – Johannes Climacus, Philosophical Fragments (46)
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Soren Kierkegaard used Johannes Climacus to communicate his philosophies of how the idea of self fits into the grand eternity of faith. This quotation explains many facets of Johannes Climacus’ thoughts on the historical-eternal.
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The Absolute Paradox, Climacus’ is explaining paradox in the context of Socrates and human thought. This quotation provides a peek into Kierkegaard’s existential views, religious biases, and literary writing style.
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Climacus believes that at the foundation of all thinking is the idea that the human can understand and transcend something outside of her/his rationality
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This inherent belief allows humans to forget the reality that some things, like God and Christianity, cannot be explained or understood by human thought.
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However, every human still believes they can comprehend it.
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The paradox is something that the mind cannot grasp and understanding that the mind cannot grasp it is a relevant step in understanding Kierkegaard’s philosophy on religion.
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This statement does include Kierkegaard’s bias towards Christianity, against Hegelianism and the Socratic Way.
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The quote clearly fits in with what Kierkegaard felt about understanding Christianity intellectually.
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Unlike Hegelianism, the philosophical system explaining everything, which demoted Christianity by cultivating rational thought to understand the “modern” existence of God..
For Socrates, the Truth was self-actualization, something already inside humans that a good teacher could help the individual to realize and resurface.
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The Greek tradition was in complete opposition to God. Kierkegaard had sympathy for the Greeks but he was staunchly Christian. For him, the truth was the coming of a one-time teacher, Jesus Christ.
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The difference between Socrates and Kierkegaard is the difference between reforming and transforming.
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The Greeks believed the truth allowed the individual to become a better version of herself while Climacus wrote about how the truth completely re-created the individual.
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The truth for Kierkegaard is eternal and has no history.
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Climacus’ absolute paradox is that man is absolutely different than God because Jesus was both man and divine. Jesus is divine because he was conceived without sin and he did not sin.
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The basis of absolute paradox is the realization of human sin and the leap of faith that humans take when they begin to believe something that cannot be explained logically..
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Jesus appeared as a carpenter to relate with people so they could receive the message of Christianity..
“The God’s presence in human form, aye in the humble form of a servant, is itself the teaching, and the God must give the condition along with it or the learner will understand nothing”
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