La sopportazione dell'alterità

Pazienza e amore secondo Kierkegaard

Abstract

For the modern philosophy the meaning is a product of subjectivity. Kierkegaard gives us another way for the intelligence of the voluntary life. Patience is not for Kierkegaard an accident of character but is the condition to become a person. It is necessary to let go a purely psychological understanding of patience. The true perseverance is too radically opposed to an obsessive existence blinded to the world. Between the Stoic conception of patience and the Kierkegaard conception, there is no common essence. Patience does not told on to the inhuman ideal of life without affect, but asks us to silence certain affects so that we might be touched by good’s call. Thus patience in hope is the fruit of love.We acquire our soul “in” patience.