"For Self-Examination" and its companion piece "Judge for
Yourself " are the culmination of Soren Kierkegaard's "second
authorship," which followed his "Concluding Unscientific
Postscript." Among the simplest and most readily comprehended of
Kierkegaard's books, the two works are part of the signed direct
communications, as distinguished from his earlier pseudonymous
writings. The lucidity and pithiness, and the earnestness and
power, of "For Self-Examination" and "Judge for Yourself " are
enhanced when, as Kierkegaard requested, they are read aloud. They
contain the well-known passages on Socrates' defense speech, how to
read, the lover's letter, the royal coachman and the carriage team,
and the painter's relation to his painting. The aim of awakening
and inward deepening is signaled by the opening section on Socrates
in "For Self-Examination" and is pursued in the context of the
relations of Christian ideality, grace, and response. The secondary
aim, a critique of the established order, links the works to the
final polemical writings that appear later after a four-year period
of silence."
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