THE INMOST SECRETS OF LOVE – Søren Kierkegaard: Works of Love

His early work was written under various pseudonyms. He was born in a Spring day of 1813, to an affluent family in Copenhagen. Considered the original existentialist, Søren Kierkegaard developed his philosophical views in reaction to what he saw were empty values of Hegelianism and the Christian ethics of his time. Some of Kierkegaard’s key ideas, include the concept of “Truth as Subjectivity”. His most widely read work “Fear and Trembling”, is probably his most comprehensive study of human anxiety, significance, and faith in face of ever persistent uncertainty. Much of his work deals with religious themes such as faith in God. “What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act”.

Works of Love, is a work by Søren Kierkegaard, written in 1847. That book deals primarily with the Christian conception of agape love in contrast with erotic love, or preferential love given to friends and family. Kierkegaard uses this value to understand the existence and relationship of the individual Christian. What you read is a profound examination of the human heart, in which the great philosopher conducts the reader into the inmost secrets of Love. http://www.amazon.com/Works-Love-Soren-Kierkegaard/dp/0061713279