Talk:Søren Kierkegaard

My edit of his degree from an MA to a PhD

I was reading an article on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy today on Kierkegaard <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/#LifeWork>, and noted that the Magister degree in philosophy was noted as being equivalent to a contemporary PhD,

"After a prolonged period of study at the University of Copenhagen, Søren received a first degree in theology and a Magister degree in philosophy, with a dissertation dealing with irony as practiced by Socrates (On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates). The Magister degree was the equivalent of a contemporary doctorate, the title being changed to “doctor” some years later."

whereas it was listed as equivalent to an MA on this page, which would ill-inform users about the level of education he had attained. I have changed all references to a Master's to PhD to account for this (it would be similar if someone who graduated with the equivalent of a Bachelor's from Oxford was listed as having an MA, as the Bachelor's degrees there are often awarded as "Master's" even though they are not at the RFQ7 level--that is, the graduate level--in the UK's educational system). If anyone has any issues with this edit please discuss below.

I also request that another user with more editing experience add footnotes and hover-text near the entry in the infobox so as to add clarification for others who may have been mislead in the past about Kierkegaard's degree of educational attainment. Thanatos&Eros (talk) 02:05, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Influences/influenced fields deprecated in infobox

For the sake of slightly easier access to the information in these now deprecated fields, I'll paste here the individuals (with references that were supplied) that were listed under "influences" and "influenced" fields in the article's infobox until today. Not sure how it would ever be of use, but I figure it does no harm.

Influences

• Abraham
• Johann Arndt
• Gottfried Arnold
• Augustine of Hippo
• F. X. von Baader
• Bernard of Clairvaux
• Bonaventure
• René Descartes
• Diogenes
• François Fénelon
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• J. G. Hamann
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Johan LudvigHeiberg
• Immanuel Kant
• G. E. Lessing
• Alphonsus Ligouri
• Martin Luther
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• P. M. Møller
• Regine Olsen
• Plato
• John of Ruusbroec
• F. W. J. Schelling
• William Shakespeare (Ruoff, James E. (1968). "Kierkegaard and Shakespeare". Comparative Literature. 20 (4). JSTOR: 343–354. doi:10.2307/1769982. JSTOR 1769982.)
• Angelus Silesius
• Socrates
• Henry Suso
• John Tauler
• Thomas à Kempis
• Gerhard Tersteegen
• Christian Wolff (Klempe, Sven Hroar (2017) [2014]. Kierkegaard and the Rise of Modern Psychology. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-351-51022-6.)
• Zacharias Werner

Influenced

• Theodor W. Adorno
• Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Karl Barth
• Ingmar Bergman
• Oets Kolk Bouwsma
• Martin Buber
• Albert Camus
• John D. Caputo
• Karen L. Carr (The Sense Of Antirationalism: The Religious Thought Of Zhuangzi And Kierkegaard, Karen L. Carr and Philip J. Ivanhoe, CreateSpace, 2010)
• Yves Congar
• Jacques Ellul
• Robert Greene
• Romano Guardini
• Georges Gusdorf
• Martin Heidegger
• Henrik Ibsen
• Karl Jaspers
• Walter Kaufmann
• Emmanuel Levinas
• Henri de Lubac
• Gabriel Marcel (Stewart, Jon Bartley (2011) Kierkegaard and Existentialism. Ashgate Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-4094-2641-7)
• Rollo May
• Thomas Merton
• H. Richard Niebuhr
• Walker Percy
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Carl Schmitt
• Mehrespand
• Roger Scruton
• Lev Shestov
• Paul Tillich
• Miguel de Unamuno
• Jean Wahl
• Cornel West
• Ludwig Wittgenstein

Peloneous(t)[c] 02:38, 23 September 2024 (UTC)