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''Philosophical Fragments'' (Danish title: ) is a Christian philosophic work written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1844. It was the first of three works written under the pseudonym ''Johannes Climacus'', the other two were ''Johannes Climacus'', 1841 and ''Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments'', 1846. Kierkegaardian scholars D. Anthony Storm and Walter Lowrie believe Kierkegaard could be referring to Johannes Climacus, a 7th-century Christian monk, who believed that an individual is converted to Christianity by way of a ladder, one rung (virtue) at a time.〔''A Short Life of Kierkegaard'', by Walter Lowrie, 1942, 1970, Princeton University p. 166-167〕 Kierkegaard believes the individual comes to an understanding with Christ by a leap. Kierkegaard scholar and translator David F. Swenson was the first to translate the book into English in 1936. He called it "Philosophical Chips" in an earlier biography of Kierkegaard published in 1921and another early translator, Lee Milton Hollander, called it "Philosophic Trifles" in his early translation of portions of Kierkegaard's works in 1923. Kierkegaard hinted that he might write a "sequel in 17 pieces" in his preface.〔''Philosophical Fragments'' p. 5 http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2512&C=2378〕 By February 22, 1846 he published a 600 page sequel to his 83 page ''Fragments''. He devoted over 200 pages of ''Concluding Unscientific Postscript'' to an explanation of what he meant by ''Philosophical Fragments''.〔See ''Concluding Unscientific Postscript'' Chapter IV p 361ff〕 He referred to a quote by Plato in his ''Postscript to Philosophical Fragments'': "But I must ask you Socrates, what do you suppose is the upshot of all this? As I said a little while ago, it is the scrapings and shavings of argument, cut up into little bits." – ''Greater Hippias'', 304a. He could have been thinking about this quote when he wrote this book. Plato was asking "What is beauty?" Kierkegaard asks, "What is Truth?"〔''Concluding Postscript'' title page〕 Kierkegaard had already asked about truth 9 days earlier when he published ''Three Upbuilding Discourses''. A mere 4 days from the publication of ''Philosophical Fragments'' he published ''The Concept of Anxiety''. Kierkegaard wrote his books in reaction to both Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel as well as the philosophic-historical use of speculation in regard to Christianity. Schlegel published a book bearing the same title as Kierkegaard's, ''Philosophical Fragments'' in 1799. ==Structure== Kierkegaard always wrote a preface signed by the name of the pseudonymous author he was using. He began this practice with his unpublished book ''Johannes Climacus'' and continued it throughout his writing career. However, he added his own name as the person responsible for publication of ''Philosophical Fragments'', ''Concluding Unscientific Postscript'', ''The Sickness Unto Death'' and ''Practice in Christianity''. He also wrote many discourses which he signed with his own name. He began that practice with the writing of ''Two Upbuilding Discourses'' in 1843. He divides his book into five major sections *A Project of Thought *The God as Teacher and Savior: An Essay of the Imagination *The Absolute Paradox of the Offended Christian * *Appendix: The Paradox and the Offended Consciousness *The Case of the Contemporary Disciple * *Interlude *The Disciple at Second Hand Later, in his ''Concluding Unscientific Postscript'' Kierkegaard said "The Issue in ''Fragments'' is an Introductory Issue, Not to Christianity but to Becoming a Christian."〔''Concluding Unscientific Postscript'', 1846, Hong 1992 p. 381〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philosophical Fragments」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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