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Abstract
Socrates is closer to Kierkegaard’s sense of Christian life than we might suspect, especially in the duty to love the ugly elaborated in Works of Love. Socratic jest gives indirection to passion for the sake of loving the neighbor. This passage buttresses the thesis that comedy forms a confinium between the ethical and religious spheres, and advances ugly, laughing, yet lovable Socrates as a comic paragon.
Published Online: 2013-10-24
Published in Print: 2013-10
© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
