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Document Details : Title: Commanded Love and Moral Autonomy Subtitle: The Kierkegaard-Habermas Debate Author(s): WESTPHAL, Merold Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 5 Issue: 4 Date: December 1998 Pages: 263-276 DOI: 10.2143/EP.5.4.563074 Abstract : One way to read Kierkegaard’s Works of Love is as an all out assault on the Enlightenment ideal of moral autonomy from a religious point of view. Kant is the locus classicus of this ideal, just as Descartes and Locke are, respectively, for the correlative ideals of epistemic and political autonomy. Since these three components belong to the central core of what we have come to think of as the modern understanding of the subject, Kierkegaard’s critique has a distinctively postmodern flavour. But, as we shall see, it is postmodern precisely by the way it is biblically premodern. |
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