"Kierkegaard… likes to quote the church father Lactantius, who said that the virtues of paganism were glittering vices…"

"Hegel’s lack of charity toward the instrument metaphor is not arbitrary. It represents his disenchantment with the as…"

"Hegel’s… deepest objections to the view of knowledge as method and power, as “controlling knowledge” (Scheler, Tillic…"

"Knowledge conceived as an instrument is a means to the end of power. The goal of philosophy, however, is not to gain …"

"It is precisely the acceptance of political, ethical, and religious heteronomy which leads Hegel to label Judeo-Chris…"

"Kierkegaard seeks to un-socialize the individual in order to un-deify society."

"To assume that one’s existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, t…"

"The question concerns the texture of daily life. Does the individual live with the assurance, conscious or unconsciou…"

"To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, …"

"[For Hegel] it is the ethical task of the individual to transcend particularity and conform to the universal, to exhi…"