Cris Siegfred B.

Onari January 28, 2019

AB – IDS_MP
What is the Truth for Kierkegaard?

(1.) Soren Kierkegaard argued over and over again that the crowd is untruth. That the crowd is

the is the masses. The single individual is the single individual himself. The truth lies in that single

individual not to the masses of the crowd.

(2.) May it be that we work with and in the crowd but it is that one who “can receive” the prize

with God’s help. God may be that singularity of that individual. He must me the inspiration that we

usurp ourselves to be an indivual for himself, to be the beholder of the truth and not offer it to the

untruth crowd.

(3.) Even Christ, in a sense is untrue, by dying for the sake of the crowd, but in reality, He has

nothing to do with the crowd. But it offered Him truth by being that individual who died without the

crowd’s say.

(4.) Politics is thrives in the validation of the crowd, hence the balloting. Kierkegaard regards

this as untruth. Politics tries to upbring the “eternal truth” but being a crowd in itself self-destroys. It is

“impolitic” to surface the truth.

(5.) The crowd is like the spectacle of which Guy Debord implicitly explained. The very

spectacles that is labelled as the “truth” which the crowd hold on dear to, is the untruth. We are

shrouded by the spectacles of the non-living, self-sustaining creature created by the crowd, we tend to

see the untrue through the crowd.

(6.) The power of dividing responsibility is the untruthfulness of the crowd. It is us, that single

individuals, who shall render that job, not the crowd. Strength in numbers may it be but it is that 1 peso

coin which completes the one hundred peso bill.

(7.) Respect, Courage, Prudence, and other traits should dwell within us, not taught or

influenced by the crowd. This is the truth. But shouting in the Roxas street together with rallyist,

against the government because there are many of you is untruth. You fear the judgement of the crowd,

such an untruth!

(8.) The speaker could be the truth if he is that single individual communicating. His speech

should be his and not by the crowd. And it should pass through the eyes of God for it to be truth.

(9.) God’s Commandment, love thy neighbor, is a calling of truth. Our present civilization calls to deny

God to make judgement for and with the crowd is untruth. It is in love, not towards the crowd, but the
individual that comprises the crowd is the truth. Each individual, that single individual possesses the

truth in himself.

(10.) The truth for Kierkegaard is that the individual sees and has the truth. You, me, everyone

has the truth but the determination demanded by the crowd shattered the whole idea and we subjected

ourself to the crowd. God the is middle term, in a sense, he possesses the truth, the bridge for the truth.

(11.) Perceptions of the majority is shrouded by their number, they tend to determine themselves

on the majority, thus, truth is buried among themselves. The minority, the self, has seen it all and they

truly have an opinion.

(12.) What’s true is that opinion that lies in that individual, the minority, their views are not

pounded and flattened to be uniform with the other. The richness and purity of that opinion is as

unadulterated as it can be.