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Daimonion (Ancient Greek: δαιμόνιον, daimónion; Latin genius) is the name given in ancient literature to an inner voice which, according to tradition, gave philosopher Socrates warning signs to prevent him from making wrong decisions. Socrates considered the originator of these signs to be a deity whom he did not specify.
The book is the first of Kierkegaard's works written pseudonymously, a practice he employed during the first half of his career. [14] [15] In this case, he employed four pseudonyms: "Victor Eremita" - the fictional compiler and editor, which he claims to have found in an antique escritoire.
Paul Shorey sees the daimonion not as an inspiration but as "a kind of spiritual tact checking Socrates from any act opposed to his true moral and intellectual interests." [ 19 ] Regarding the charge brought against Socrates in 399 BC, Plato surmised "Socrates does wrong because he does not believe in the gods in whom the city believes, but ...
On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (Danish: Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates) is Søren Kierkegaard's 1841 master's thesis under Frederik Christian Sibbern . [1] This thesis is the culmination of three years of extensive study on Socrates, as seen from the view point of Xenophon, Aristophanes, and Plato.
Socrates asks Theages what kind specialty is wisdom exactly, and the boy responds that it's the ability to govern men (123e). Socrates suggests to Theages that the art he is looking for is that of the despot, tyrant (τύραννος) in the original text (124e), a word that in Ancient Greek meant autocrat rather than violent oppressor as it ...
David F. Swenson translated the book as Thoughts on Crucial Situations in Human Life in 1941, and Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong did so again in 1993 under the title, Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions. Each of these books revolves around the anxiety of making a decision. Kierkegaard also wrote on the subject in his other writings.
The Essential Kierkegaard. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 544. ISBN 0-691-01940-1; ISBN 978-0-69101-940-6; Søren Kierkegaard, The Point of View of My Work as An Author: A Report to History, and related writings, written in 1848, published in 1859 by his brother Peter Kierkegaard. Translated with introduction and notes ...
Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript; Translated from the Danish by David F. Swenson, completed after his death and provided with introduction and notes by Walter Lowrie. Princeton, Princeton University Press, for American Scandinavian foundation, 1974, c1941. The Kierkegaard Reader; edited by Jane Chamberlain and Jonathan R‚e.