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Kierkegaard's notions of Risk, Faith, Passion, & Truth Soren Kierkegaard puts forth a unique form of existentialism. He chooses to use the questions of subjectivity, objectivity, and the search for truth, in existentialist thought as a means for the justification of his faith. Through this he comes up with one of the purest definitions of what faith really is. The question is then; can he through his discussion of 'the paradox of truth' be susceptible to Nietzschian relativism, given this conception? The conclusion is that it is not; Kierkegaard's definition requires a passionate belief in something. One cannot believe that everything is relative, in true Nietzschian style, and hold a passionate belief in a specific something at the same time. 'The Paradox of Truth' is one of the base conceptions in Kierkegaard's theoretical framework and is core to his conceptions of faith and risk. "A paradox results from the...

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