Why so sad? (QUESTION FOR EMILY)
I am puzzled by Kierkegaard's proposition that the love of God is a sorrowful love. In the metaphor with the King and the maiden the love is sorrowful because the King shadows the maiden and he feel sorry for her. However, wouldn't the maiden be made the King's equal and become a Queen who shares all of his riches and power? Couldn't God elevate the learned person to a place nearer to his status? (Like the deification we've talked about with Mongrain?) It seems strange to me that God would ever be sad, especially after someone has determined the Truth.
Also Kierkegaard writes: "The poet's task will be to find a solution, some point of union, where love's understanding may be realized in truth, the God's anxiety set at rest, his sorrow banished" (still don't have page numbers, sorry!). Why does this responsibility fall to the poet rather than the philosopher? What is the importance of poetry in the search for Truth? And why does Kierkegaard refer to his work as a poem when it seems to in fact be prose? Is it just the translation that distorts its poeticism?
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