RESUMO 11 | PALESTRA NACIONAL

Kierkegaard on Consciousness

FERREIRA, Gabriel | Unisinos, Brasil

During 1842 and 1843 Kierkegaard wrote a whole book which, despite its completeness, became unpublished up to his death. The work, properly entitled De omnibus dubitandum est, is supposed to be a parody of the modern scholastic philosophy in its main lines. Thus, it tells us the story of a philosophy student, Johannes Climacus, who was told by his professors that philosophy begins with doubt. In spite of his efforts, Climacus feels frustrated since he could not truly doubt everything. Climacus' story becames, then, the occasion for Kierkegaard's most extensive exposition of his "trichotomic" (trichotomiske) theory of consciousness (Bevisthed) as the privileged locus where Actuality (Virkelighed), Ideality (Idealitet) and Selfcounsciousness (Selvbevisthed) meet. This paper aims, therefore, to throw some light on Kierkegaard's understanding of Counsciousness specially in its connection to his epistemological these.