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Article: Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith.(Book review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- March 1, 2007
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KIERKEGAARD AND SOCRATES: A STUDY IN PHILOSOPHY AND FAITH by JACOB HOWLAND Cambridge University Press, 246 pages, $80
With the exception of Nietzsche and those he later influenced, nearly all the philosophers in the received canon of the greats paid at least lip service to the integrity of Socrates. But only Plato and Kierkegaard took him seriously enough to make him the singular model for how one should go about doing philosophy. Socrates' influence on Plato is uncontroversial, but the odd thing is that, up until Jacob Howland's fine monograph, no one has written, at least in English, a study specifically devoted to Kierkegaard's attitude toward Socrates. What ...