http://jeffberryman.com/2009/09/11/kierkegaards-eleventh-hour/ Cobbling together the artist's life...acting, writing, directing, teaching...making beauty... Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:40:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jeffberryman.com/2009/09/11/kierkegaards-eleventh-hour/#comment-1446 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:14:07 +0000 http://jeffberryman.com/?p=727#comment-1446 In order to understand the book, you must, in fact, will one thing – the understanding. (This concept is closely related to Simone Weil’s concept of Attention, if you know her ideas.) The Japanese film “Ikiru” is wonderful illustration of Kierkegaard’s idea in this book. The “I” disappears from the Will when it wills one thing. The I and the Will become One. The Good is the One Thing, and willing it is an action, which is related to the vocation of the person who wills. When the heart is pure, the Will is One, and remorse is absent.

]]> http://jeffberryman.com/2009/09/11/kierkegaards-eleventh-hour/#comment-1151 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:25:54 +0000 http://jeffberryman.com/?p=727#comment-1151 [...] Jeff Berryman has written a good post, "Kierkegaard's Eleventh Hour." Reflections on Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing. [...]

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