The Germans: Kierkegaard

alright ladies and gentlemen good evening thanks for coming out in these blizzardy conditions cleared up just enough that we can that I could make it it was closed yesterday I would not have been able to make it so this is great um first an announcement a brief announcement last year I did the life philosophical retreat and I'm gonna do that again it went so well last year I was actually hesitant to do it again so I want to say for the people who came last year a thank you because it was it was amazing but they encouraged me to offer the class again so if you want interested there's information on the on my website about the class and what we do and sort of what the three days is all about it's a big three day class in June at the end of June so a couple of people have already signed up who couldn't enroll last year so if you're interested you might want sign up sooner than later because it's it's maybe about half full already and I just announced it from this minute so I'm kind of crazy I don't know what's going on but the word is out somehow so alright so come tonight kierkegaard now it's important to note that it would probably drive kierkegaard mad to be in a German philosophy series ha because he was a Danish fundamentalist specifically of the language and it's one of those telling facts about history and how things have changed that when he wanted to write his dissertation because he hated German and he hated and he loved the Danish language and he was a Danish fundamentalist he wanted to write his dissertation in Danish I mean he had to petition the King to do this which is just bizarre to think about and yet this is what happened so he petitioned the king to allow him to write his dissertation in the native language of his country but what this sounded like at the time was a dodge right because the language of Education was Latin and German anybody who was going to learn anything of value was gonna know Latin in German and so it sounded like you were trying to get out of having to be educated so they said all right seeing as how you're in Denmark ...