Talk:Leap of faith

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[edit] Søren Kierkegaard and Leap of Faith

The Søren Kierkegaard article is peppered with attributions giving him credit for coining the term "leap of faith". This article dismisses the claim. Can anyone reconcile these? --Talinus 02:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] We live forward but we understand backward

From Putnam's "A Reconsideration of Dewey Democracy": "James quotes [in Pragmatism, 105] an aphorism of Kierkegaard's (whom he could not have read, since Kierkegaard had not been translated into any language James read) to the effect that "We live forward but we understand backward."" Where, in Kierkegaard, do we find this aphorism? And how might James discovered it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 168.167.178.32 (talk) 06:40, 3 April 2007 (UTC).

The aphorism comes from the Journals. William James found the aphorism in the works of Harald Høffding. Høffding incorporated some of the works of Kierkegaard into his survey of philosophy, and that's probably one of the few ways James, and other American philosophers pre-1920s, knows about Kierkegaard. Poor Yorick 02:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moved from main article

2. Marcus Dahle [1337] (1402). Died by punishment for blasfemi. [Marcus stood for that the only god there was; should be mankind and no "holy power" never to be seen or heard from. The church could have that so they ordered that he should pay the price for blasfemi. Marcus used this sentence and said: "No god will ever smite me; They only one to serve punishments is the people. And it is exactly what happends. It isn't god that punish me; It is the priests and the church!"

Why is this on the article???? 82.17.136.199 (talk) 14:01, 16 December 2007 (UTC)