University of Trinity College | Kierkegaard Circle - Evaluating the Role of Recollection in Kierkegaard's, "Works of Love"

Søren Kierkegaard's Works of Love offers a controversial interpretation of the commandment, “love your neighbour as yourself.” In the penultimate chapter entitled "The Work of Love in Recollecting the One Who is Dead," Kierkegaard establishes a tenuous relationship between the work of love in recollecting the one who is dead and his broader theory of neighbourly love. My presentation focuses on Kierkegaard’s claim that recollection’s love is the most faithful, free, and unselfish.

Speaker:  Ariel LaFayette, is a student in the PhD program at UofT, focuses on philosophy of religion in the 19th & 20th centuries. More broadly, her research interests include the history of phenomenology, Christian ethics, existentialism, and the philosophy of love (within the context of the philosophy of religion). She has presented at the World Congress of Philosophy, Rome (2024); the 17th Annual PGSO Conference on Religious Experiences at the University of Southern Florida (2024); the European Academy of Religion (2024), and the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University (2022).