Talk:Søren Kierkegaard

My edit of his degree from an MA to a PhD

I was reading an article on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy today on Kierkegaard <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/#LifeWork>, and noted that the Magister degree in philosophy was noted as being equivalent to a contemporary PhD,

"After a prolonged period of study at the University of Copenhagen, Søren received a first degree in theology and a Magister degree in philosophy, with a dissertation dealing with irony as practiced by Socrates (On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates). The Magister degree was the equivalent of a contemporary doctorate, the title being changed to “doctor” some years later."

whereas it was listed as equivalent to an MA on this page, which would ill-inform users about the level of education he had attained. I have changed all references to a Master's to PhD to account for this (it would be similar if someone who graduated with the equivalent of a Bachelor's from Oxford was listed as having an MA, as the Bachelor's degrees there are often awarded as "Master's" even though they are not at the RFQ7 level--that is, the graduate level--in the UK's educational system). If anyone has any issues with this edit please discuss below.

I also request that another user with more editing experience add footnotes and hover-text near the entry in the infobox so as to add clarification for others who may have been mislead in the past about Kierkegaard's degree of educational attainment. Thanatos&Eros (talk) 02:05, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

I want to thank you for making this change to the article, as the references to Kierkegaard's degree as a "master's degree" were definitely erroneous, as you stated.

After doing some reading about the Danish magister degree, and the history of degree levels more generally in the country, I elected to also eliminate references to Kierkegaard's degree as a "PhD". No reliable sources name his degree as a PhD, for the simple reason that it wasn't one. No matter how I drafted an explanatory note, it always seemed to me essentially original research. I have included a quote from the Stanford Encyclopedia page in the footnote regarding his degree in the main body text, currently note 76 in "Early years (1813–1836) § Regine Olsen and graduation (1837–1841)" as I write this reply.

I also removed the parenthetical reference to his degree and graduation date from the infobox, which is supported by the example of infoboxes in high-quality articles such as Thomas Carlyle and Niels Bohr. As a counterpoint, Hegel and Isaac Newton's articles both list their degree names & conferral dates in the infobox, but in both cases there are multiple degrees (and in Hegel's case, institutions) involved.

If including the degree in the infobox seems more appropriate to you or others, my thinking is that it could be "(mag.art., 1841)" or "(doctorate, 1841)", with any wikilink being to the page titled Doctorate or one of its (sub-)sections. Peloneous(t)[c] 00:42, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Paring down listed references, September 2024

I removed a large number of items listed in "Sources", based on the sole criteria that they were not referenced in any footnotes in "Citations" (or in a couple cases, in the body text). Certainly that single criteria could lead to more references being removed than appropriate, as they may have been initially added as general references or can quite easily be mined for sourcing due to their high quality. Therefore, here's a complete list of the excised sources below—

• Angier, Tom (2006). Either Kierkegaard/or Nietzsche: Moral Philosophy in a New Key. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 0-7546-5474-5.
• Auden, W. H. (1952). "The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
• Barth, Karl; Hoskyns, E. C. (1968). The Epistle to the Romans. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-500294-2.
• Brandes, Georg (1899). Henrik Ibsen: Critical Studies. Macmillan co. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
• Cappelorn, Niels J. (2003). Written Images. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-11555-9.
• Cappelørn, Niels Jørgen; Leksikon, Gyldendal (2008). "The Official Website of Denmark". Søren Kierkegaard. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
• Caputo, John D. (2008). How to Read Kierkegaard. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-33078-6.
• Carlisle, Claire (2006). Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-8611-0.
• Connell, George B. 2016. Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
• Dooley, Mark (2001). The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility. New York: Fordham University Press.
• Drucker, Peter F. (1933). "The Unfashionable Kierkegaard". Retrieved 10 February 2012.
• Friedmann, Rudolph (1949). "Kierkegaard". Retrieved 6 November 2012.
• Gardiner, Patrick. (1988). Kierkegaard. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-287642-2
• Gates, John A. (1960). The Life And Thought of Kierkegaard For Everyman. The Westminster Press. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
• Gouwens, David J (1989). Kierkegaard's Dialectic of the Imagination. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 0-8204-0853-0.
• Gouwens, David J (1996). Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55551-7.
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1979). Phenomenology of Spirit. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-824597-1.
• Holmer, Paul L (2012). David J Gouwens (ed.). On Kierkegaard and Truth. Eugene: Wipf and Stock. ISBN 978-1-62189-434-6.
• Hong, Howard V; Hong, Edna (2000). The Essential Kierkegaard. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03309-9.
• Houe, Poul; Marino, Gordon D. (2003). Søren Kierkegaard and the words. Essays on hermeneutics and communication. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel.
• Høffding, Harald (1900). "A brief history of modern philosophy". pp. 283–289. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
• Hunt, George Laird (1958). "Ten makers of modern Protestant thought Schweitzer, Rauschenbusch, Temple, Kierkegaard, Barth, Brunner, Niebuhr, Tillich, Bultmann, Buber". Retrieved 1 October 2010.
• Kierkegaard, Søren (2009). Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-921419-8.
• Kofoed-Hansen, Hans Peter (1856). "Dr. S. Kierkegaard mod Dr. H. Martensen: et indlaeg (Danish translation (Dr. S. Kierkegaard against Dr. H. Martensen: an argument)". Retrieved 12 September 2010.
• Lippitt, John; Hutto, Daniel (1998). "Making Sense of Nonsense: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein, 1998" (PDF). University of Hertfordshire.
• Mackey, Louis (1986). Points of View: Readings of Kierkegaard. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8130-0824-0.
• Mooney, Edward F. (2007). On Søren Kierkegaard: dialogue, polemics, lost intimacy, and time?. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-5822-1.
• Muggeridge, Malcolm (1983). A Third Testament. Little Brown and Company. ISBN 0-345-30516-7. (Examines the lives of St. Augustine, Blaise Pascal, William Blake, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.)
• Mulder, Jack (2010). Kierkegaard and the Catholic Tradition: Conflict and Dialogue. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00480-2.
• Neuhaus, Richard J. (2004). Kierkegaard for Grownups. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
• Pattison, George (2002). Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Discourses: Philosophy, theology, literature. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-28370-1.
• Shestov, Lev (1935). "Kierkegaard & the Existential Philosophy".
• Skopetea, Sophia (1995). Kierkegaard og graeciteten, En Kamp med ironi. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel. ISBN 87-7421-963-4.
• Staubrand, Jens (2009). Søren Kierkegaard: International Bibliography Music works & Plays, New edition, Copenhagen. Søren Kierkegaard Kulturproduktion. ISBN 978-87-92259-91-2.
• Staubrand, Jens (2012). Kierkegaard: Breve og notater fra Berlin [Kierkegaard: Letters and Notes from Berlin] (in Danish). København: Søren Kierkegaard Kulturproduktion. ISBN 978-87-92510-07-5.
• Swenson, David F. (1916). "The Anti-Intellectualism of Kierkegaard". The Philosophical Review. Ithaca [etc.] Cornell University Press [etc.] Retrieved 17 December 2011.
• Westfall, Joseph (2007). The Kierkegaardian Author: Authorship and Performance in Kierkegaard's Literary and Dramatic Criticism. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-019302-2.
• Westfall, Joseph (2018). Authorship and Authority in Kierkegaard's Writings. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-350-05595-7.

Items with no author

• The Book Lover, 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche and his Influence p. 144ff access date 3 July 2012
• "Manuscripts from the Søren Kierkegaard Archive". Royal Library of Denmark. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
• "Society for Christian Psychology". Christian Psychology. Archived from the original on 7 April 2006. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
• The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre. "Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenteret". University of Copenhagen. Archived from the original on 19 July 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2013.

Peloneous(t)[c] 00:14, 30 September 2024 (UTC)