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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Søren Kierkegaard from The Sickness Unto Death:

"The fantastic is, of course, most closely related to the imagination [Phantasien], but the imagination is related in it’s turn to feeling, understanding, and will, so that a person’s feelings, understanding and will may be fantastic. Fantasy is, in general the medium of infinitization… (emphasis mine)

The fantastic is generally speaking what carries a person into the infinite in such a way that it only leads him away from himself and thus prevents him from coming back to himself.

Wow. This is a both a complete misundertanding and misrepresentation of what Kierkegaard was talking about.

It most certainly does not support your 'argument'.

12 posted on 10/22/2002 4:51:51 PM PDT by Pahuanui
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To: Pahuanui
Wow. This is a both a complete misundertanding and misrepresentation of what Kierkegaard was talking about.

Kierkegaard was the progenitor of existentialism. Elaborate for us professor...

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It most certainly does not support your 'argument'.

Fallacy of begging the question.

16 posted on 10/22/2002 9:19:27 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood
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To: Pahuanui
This is a both a complete misundertanding and misrepresentation of...

Thomas Hobbes?

18 posted on 10/22/2002 9:21:29 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood
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