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1、StaceyAke"Aswearesowemake":LifeasCompositioninSœrenKierkegaardandDietrich1BonhoefferIntroductionThispaperwillexploretheideaofone'slifeasaworkofart,acomposition,whicheachpersoncreatesalongthelinesoftheirownLife-View.ThetwothinkerswhoseformsofcreationwillbeconsideredareSørenK
2、ierkegaardandDietrichBonhoeffer.Specifically,thenotionofahumanlife'sbeingacontrapunctual,polyphoniccompositionundertakenagainstthecantusfirmusofthedivinewillbeusedtolookatvariousthemesfoundwithintheKierkegaardianauthorshipanditconcomitantlifework.Assuch,thepaperwillbedivide
3、dintothreeparts.ThefirstpartwillexplorethenotionofthepoeticcompositionofthepersonasfoundinKierkegaard.ThesecondpartwillexplorethenotionofapolyphoniclifeasdescribedinBonhoeffer'sLettersandPapersfromPrison.Thethirdandfinalsectionwilldealwiththedifferencesandsimilaritiesbetwee
4、nKierkegaard'sandBonhoeffer'sviewpoints.Part1.ThepoeticcompositionofthepersonasfoundinKierkegaardA.Whatdoesitmeantobeapoetically-composedperson?InPartTwoofSørenKierkegaard's1841magisterialdissertationTheConceptofIrony,inthepartactuallyentitled"TheConceptofIrony",hediscusses
5、atlengthwhathe2considerstobe"irony'sgreatrequirement",namely,"tolivepoetically".Inthissectionofthework,"IronyafterFichte",ironyispresentedasareifiedconcept.Inotherwords,itistreatedasifitwereapersonorapersona,or–perhaps–anextensionorevolutionofwhatSocrateshimselfhadbeen.More
6、over,itseemsthatthispersonified,reifiedironyhasactuallysomehowmisunderstoodwhatitmeansto"livepoetically",for"ironyunderstoodsomethingotherandsomethingmorethanwhatanysensiblepersonwhohasanyrespectforahuman3being'sworth,anysensefortheoriginalityinahumanbeing,understandsbythis
7、phrase."Andwhatirony(ortheironist)misunderstandsisthetruesourceforwhatisoriginalortheoriginalinahumanbeing.Theironistviewstheself,orhim-orherself,asthesourceofthisoriginalityand,yet"whatisnottrueforGodistrueforman–outofnothingcomes4nothing;"thus,theironistrunstheriskofbecom
8、ingnotmerelynothingbutequallyasvoid,empty,andcommonplaceasthatwhichheorshewasironi
