Postscript

The author of this textbook has given a general description of this thinker in his book Søren Kierkegaard als Philosoph in Frommann's Klassiker.

Kierkegaard is a subjective thinker in the sense in which he used that word in the book Unwissenschaftlich Nachschrift, Unscientific Postscript, 1846, Kierkegaard's chief philosophical work.

The ideas of the subjective thinker are determined by the interplay of all the elements of psychic life, by emotion and reflection, by hope and fear, by tragic and comic moods.

And this thinking takes place in the midst of the stream of life, whose boundaries we cannot see and whose direction we can never know, at least not in the fantastical and impersonal world of abstraction.

The sympathetic collision described is brought home to the reader with tremendous force in a beautiful lyrical prose.

In Kierkegaard's own view, this book is emotionally the richest of all his writings, but too ideal to become widely popular.

Then came the continuation of the philosophical chips with its strange title, Final Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Chips, A Mimic Pathetic Dialectic Composition, An Existential Presentment by Johannes Climacus, 1846.

It discusses briefly the objective approaches to Christianity through biblical criticism, the authority of the church, philosophical speculation, the evidences of Christianity's historical achievements.