ego cogito, ego sum

Human civilization, throughout its relatively long history, has witnessed—or, perhaps, has managed to nurture—only one individual who has produced a true discourse on faith. This individual is called Sören Kierkegaard.

In similar fashion, human civilization, throughout its relatively long history, has witnessed—or, perhaps, has managed to nurture—only one individual who has produced a true account of ethics and the philosophical history of morality. The name of this individual is Friedrich Nietzsche.

One would hope that since humanity was able to cultivate, as it were, only two true sages, it would thus treasure and take good care of these two people, and allocate as much time and energy as possible to achieve the greatest possible comprehension of their ideas.

Yet, this is hardy or has ever been the case.

Together, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, suffer from the most extreme forms of misunderstanding, misrepresentation and misjudgment.

I leave it to you to decide whether there is any more irony in all this, for Kierkegaard and Nietzsche’s discourses on faith and morals also produce one of the most convincing expositions on how extreme forms of misunderstanding, misrepresentation and misjudgment come to be.