Note on Texts and Translations p. ix
Acknowledgments p. xi
Introduction p. 1
Johannes Climacus, Socratic Philosopher p. 10
Truthful Philosophy: The Harmony of Speech and Deed p. 13
Young Climacus p. 16
Everything Must Be Doubted p. 19
Climacus Comes of Age p. 21
Climacus's Thought-Project p. 28
Introducing Climacus p. 33
The Thought-Project p. 41
Platonic Interlude: Eros and the God p. 57
Socrates' Faith p. 59
Socrates' Eros p. 68
Eros and the Soul p. 71
Climacus's Poetical Venture p. 79
Socrates as Teacher, the God as Lover p. 81
The King and the Maiden p. 85
Agnes and the Merman p. 87
The Poet's Task p. 91
The Paradox and the Passion of Thought p. 102
Socrates and Self-Knowledge p. 104
Socrates and the Collision p. 111
Excursus on Demonstrating the Existence of God p. 116
Absolute Difference and Sin p. 119
Self-Love and Offense p. 129
Spiritedness and Suffering p. 130
Faith and the Contemporary Follower p. 137
Climacus's Poetical Venture, Continued p. 138
Faith and the Decision of Eternity p. 144
Seeing Is Not Believing, Believing Is Not Seeing p. 149
Gods, Philosophers, and Imposters p. 152
Climacan Interlude: On Historical Necessity p. 157
Coming into Existence, the Historical, the Past p. 159
The Apprehension of the Past p. 164
Belief and Doubt p. 167
Belief and Faith p. 170
The Follower at Second Hand and The Moral p. 173
Becoming Aware p. 174
The Struggle with Faith: Echoes of Socrates p. 179
The Moral p. 183
Socrates in Postscript p. 188
A Lunar Philosophy p. 189
Socrates and the Appropriation of Truth p. 193
Faith and Philosophy p. 198
Epilogue: Kierkegaard on Christ and Socrates p. 209
Socrates' Uniqueness p. 211
Philosophy in Ideality and Actuality p. 215
Works Cited p. 219
Index p. 223