"when the philosopher becomes blessed through his philosophy, this is an accidental blessedness. There is, then, something higher than philosophy. It is higher in that it includes me and similar bunglers. If this is so, then the question is: will philosophy continue to be called the absolute? But if it is not the absolute, then it must be able to state its boundary. If I wanted to be a poet, the esthetician would certainly instruct me about which capacities are required for that. I would then perceive that I am not a poet and would accept my fate. If, on the other hand, poetry wanted to claim to be the absolute, then it would not dare to exclude me, because the absolute cannot be anything that is not common to all."
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Prefaces, Todd W. Nichol, 1997, p. 59-60
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Prefaces, written by Søren Kierkegaard, was published on the same date that The Concept of Anxiety was published, June 17, 1844. Both books deal with the new idea of mediation. First Kierkegaard's wife mediated his writing, then Heiberg mediated his book Either/Or and finally Hegel was introducing mediation into the world. In The Concept of Anxiety his consciousness of sin is mediated by Adam's first sin. Prefaces is made up of eight separate prefaces because Nicolas Notabene, the pseudonymous a
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