Ethics Performance - "love As" Kierkegaard And Indirect Communication Methods Of Inquiry

Works of Love, written in1847by the Danish philosopher S ren Kierkegaard,is traditionally regarded as a signed work on Christian ethics. Generallyspeaking, the methodology of the traditional reading on Works of Lovewhich concerns mainly on the meaning of concepts and the textual analysisbasically is objective, direct, therefore, ethically-irrelevant. The directnessand openness of the approaches not only violate the indirectness of ethicsbut spontaneously makes the text unethical. As a matter of fact, Works ofLove is much more complicated and deliberate than a Christian prolixity.It seems subversive to claim that Works of Love contains several indirectelements that resemble Kierkegaard.s pseudonymous works. If so, then,the relationship between Kierkegaard.s pseudonymity and religiousnessshould receive more prudential meditations.Christian love is, by and large, an extremely unique topic for Kierkegaard.Since the creator of all the works of love is never sayable, showful or self-praising, nor the incapability of human languages to fully describe the originof all the forms of works of love which itself is love, the communication oflove, in Kierkegaard.s point of view, must be communicated indirectly.Since love in its nature is not direct, therefore, the true expression of loveis nothing other than the performance of love and only in this case wouldthe speaker of love get rid of becoming a forge of love. The act becomesthe most powerful and genuine expression of love.In terms of this text, it is tenable to claim that Works of Love is an ex-periment of the indirect ethical performance by means of which Kierkegaardexpressed his philosophy of love, briefly,/Works of Love is Kierkegaard.s work of love.0Only in this case that both the ethical purpose of Works ofLove and Kierkegaard.s ethics of love could have been expressed ethically.In short, it is hypercritical if Kierkegaard would talk about love in a directway that obliquely contrasts his theory of indirect communication of love.In this paper, I project to elaborate the misinterpretations of the tra-ditional reading on Works of Love, regarding to its imperfection of an in-consistent methodology, the consequential misreading that lacks the ethicalconcerns and its incapability of setting up an ethical interrelation betweenthe reader and Kierkegaard.s works of love. Subsequently, I will illus-trate the maieutic methods including indirect communication, irony andpseudonym in Works of Love in order to defend the text from being ac-cused of its other-worldliness and to demonstrate the most genuine act oflove designed and performed deliberately by Kierkegaard.