Duty, Command, the Community and Love: An Analysis of the Concept of Love In Kierkegaard.
This paper will address what a work of love is in Kierkegaard, and on the problems of being capable of communicating it. It will be argued that the concept of 'building love' is the nearest or most central concept for this notion, and in turn, the importance or significance of love in relation to others will be stressed as the culmination or apex of his concept of love. I want to focus on three of the discourses, in which Kierkegaard explicitly treats linguistic considerations: "Love Builds Up," "Love's Hidden Life," and "Love Believes All Things." 10 pgs. 20 f/c. 1b.