FEAR AND TREMBLING INTRODUCTION II
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Kierkegaard, Søren and Hollander, Lee M. (Lee Milton)
Source notes
[20]Supplied by the translator to complete the sense.
[21]Dejection. Cf. the maxim: omne animal post coïtun triste.
[22]This statement is to be found, rather, in Aristotle's Ethics II, 6.
[23]There is a pun here in the original.
[24]In Holberg's comedy of "Erasmus Montanus," III, 6.
[25]Cf. "The Banquet."
[26]Eccles, 3, 7.
[27]Comical power.
[28]In uncertain battle.
[29]According to the development of these terms in Kierkegaard's previous works, the "absolute" belongs to the ethic, the "relative" to the æsthetic sphere.
[30]Heroine of Mozart's "Don Juan."
[31]Quotation from Wessel's famous comedy of "Love without Stockings," III, 3.
[32]Viz besides the eggs she duly furnishes; Holberg, "The Busy-body," II, 1.
[33]This figure is said by Diogenes Lærtios II, 37 to have been used by Socrates himself about his relation to Xanthippe.
[34]The following sentences are not as clear in meaning as is otherwise the case in Kierkegaard.
[35]Poetics, chap. 15.
[36]Cf. "The Banquet"
[37]They are, that he had been created a man and not an animal, a man and not a woman, a Greek and not a Barbarian (Lactantius, Instit. Ill, 19, 17).
[38]Thales of Miletos (Diogenes Lærtios I, 33).
[39]German poet of the Romantic School (1773-1853).
[40]Reasoning against the rules of logic.
[41]"The Lying-in Room", II, 2.
[42]A quotation from Oehlenschläager's "Aladdin."
[43]Scattered members.
[44]See Diogenes Lærtios, VI, 37.
[45]By the immortal gods.
[46]I adjure you by the gods.
[47]Therefore those tears.
[48]I concede.
[49]It can hardly be seen, it is but for lips which understand each ether exactly.
[50]Christiansfeld, a town in South Jutland, was the seat of a colony of Herrhutian Pietists.
[51]The reference is to the "Diary of the Seducer" (in "Either-Or," part I). Edward is the scorned lover of Cordelia who is seduced by John.
[52]I concede. I have conceded.
[53]Reference to a comedy by Farquhar, which enjoyed a moderate popularity in Copenhagen.
[54]i.e., evidently, she docs not exist because of herself; hence she is in a "negative" relation to herself. The center of this relation is "what attracts all the world."
[55]In Oehlenschläger's "Aladdin."
[56]In the Danish, a pun on the homonyms en brud and et brud.
[57]Job 2, 10.
[58]According to the Jutland Laws (A. D. 1241) a man is permitted to punish his wife, when she has misbehaved, with stick and with rod, but not with weapon. In the Danish Law (1683) this right is restricted to children and servants. S. V.
[59]Containing the second part of "Stages on Life's Road," entitled "Reflections on Marriage in Refutation of Objections."