Concluding Unscientific Postscript Entry 2, Courage of Dialectic
So, as I've been reading this book along with Courage of Truth by Foucault, I can't help seeing parallels, real or imagined, there they are. Kierkegaard's point here at the beginning is that disputations about the truth of the Bible do not provide assurance of eternal happiness; they can't, even if the historical proofs are good, because you can only get approximation in this world. And even if you could get a proof, where would the passion of your faith be? Faith, he implies in some passages, requires imperfection: "For someone who believes that there is a God and a providence, things are made easier(in preserving the faith) in an imperfect world, where passion is kept alive, easier too in definitely gaining faith(as against an illusion) than in an absolutely perfect world. Indeed in such a world faith is unthinkable. Hence the teaching that faith is abolished in eternity."(Concluding Unscientific Postscript pp.26-27) For Kierkegaard faith IS passion, not s