Abstract

GARRIDO MATURANO, Ángel Enrique. The joy of being nothing. The perfect endowment and the existence worthy of receiving it in Søren Kierkegaard's Constructive Discourses. Franciscanum [online]. 2021, vol.63, n.175, pp.3-3.  Epub Apr 26, 2021. ISSN 0120-1468.  https://doi.org/10.21500/01201468.4648.

The article analyzes the discourse of S. Kierkegaard «Every good talent and every perfect endowment comes from above» and articulates it with two other constructive discourses. First, the articulation tries to elucidate why the authentic self is the one that assumes that it can do nothing. Secondly, it shows silence, obedience and joy as the fundamental attitudes on the basis of which the authentic self is in the world and characterizes the original faith implicit in them as its condition of possibility. Finally, it makes explicit the world in which the authentic self is as a just place open to the expectation of the Reign.

Keywords : Self; endowment; Nothingness; Faith; Joy.

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