"The projected hypothesis indisputably makes an advance upon Socrates, which is apparent at every point. Whether it is therefore more true than the Socratic doctrine is an entirely different question, which cannot be decided in the same breath, since we have here assumed a new organ: Faith; a new presupposition: the consciousness of Sin; a new decision: the Moment; and a new Teacher: the God in Time. Without these I certainly never would have dared present myself for inspection before that master of Irony, admired through the centuries, whom I approach with a palpitating enthusiasm that yields to none. But to make an advance upon Socrates and yet say essentially the same things as he, only not nearly so well -- that at least is not Socratic."
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Philosophical Fragments
Philosophical Fragments (Danish: Philosophiske Smuler eller En Smule Philosophi) was a Christian philosophic work written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1844. It is a discussion of "how" a person arrives at Absolute Truth vs historical or philosophical truths.
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