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Søren Kierkegaard published ''Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses'' between the years 1843 and 1844 as well as a number of pseudonymous books. His category from ''Either/Or'' is to choose and his category from his discourses is the "single individual". He has let the reader know that he or she should pay attention to the prefaces in his works and has one in this book which speaks about "meaning" and the "appropriation" of meaning and has repeatedly said that he didn't have the "authority to ''preach'' or to ''teach''." Here, in his Preface, he wrote: "This little book, which might be called a book of occasional addresses, although it has neither the occasion which creates the speaker and gives him authority, nor the occasion that creates the hearer and makes him a learner, is lacking in the legitimation of a call, and is thus in its shortcomings without excuse. It is without assistance from external circumstances, and thus quite helpless in its elaboration."〔''Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions'', Hong ''Preface''〕 He wrote of an apostle who didn't have the easiest time being a Christian. "Now Paul! Did he live in the favor of the mighty so that it could commend his teaching? No, he was a prisoner! Did the wise hail his teaching so that their reputation could guarantee its truth? No, to them it was foolishness. Was his teaching capable of quickly supplying the individual with a supranatural power, did it offer itself for sale to people through legerdemain? No, it had to be acquired slowly, appropriated in the ordeal that began with the renunciation of everything."〔''Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses'', Hong p. 82-84〕 Would Paul have become a Christian if he knew what was in store for him? Each single individual has a future and there comes a time when a decision is made that can have long-lasting effects. Paul wrote about his own experiences in his epistles and Kierkegaard thought this was a legitimate way to preach about Christianity. But he stressed indirect communication. In these final three discourses of his first authorship he chooses to write about Confession before God about guilt, sin, forgiveness, marriage and death and the answers that seem to come or don't seem to come to the inquiring individual. ==Structure== Soren Aaby Kierkegaard had ''Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions'' published April 29, 1845 and ''Stages on Life's Way'' April 30, 1845. Both books were divided into three sections: confession, marriage, and death; three crucial occasions in the life of each single individual. David F. Swenson translated the book as ''Thoughts on Crucial Situations in Human Life'' (subtitle: ''Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions'') 1941 and Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong did so in 1993 under the title, ''Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions''. * ''What It Means To Seek God'', On the Occasion of a Confessional Service * ''Love Conquers All'', On the Occasion of a Wedding * ''The Decisiveness of Death'', At the Side of a Grave, (Hong, ''At a Graveside'') (Swenson's translation has both titles while Hong's has only the latter, both Swenson and Hong translated Kierkegaard's ''Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses'' also) Each of these imagined discourses involve the anxiety of making a decision. Kierkegaard wrote much on that subject earlier as well as in his later works. *1844: The Concept of Anxiety * 1848: ''The Care of Indecesiveness, Vacillation, and Disconsolateness'' from Christian Discourses 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「Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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