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Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
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<p><i>Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments</i> is a major work by <a href="/facts/S%25C3%25B8ren_Kierkegaard/PXHdh7dt">Søren Kierkegaard</a>. The work is an attack against <a href="/facts/Hegelianism/vh0s6AAK">Hegelianism</a>, the philosophy of <a href="/facts/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel/5NXGjvSb">Hegel</a>, and particularly Hegel's <i><a href="/facts/Science_of_Logic/1IX0GJwm">Science of Logic</a></i>. The work is also famous for its dictum, "subjectivity is truth". It was an attack on what Kierkegaard saw as Hegel's <a href="/facts/Determinism/NhvNlAbe">deterministic</a> philosophy. Against Hegel's system, Kierkegaard is often interpreted as taking the side of <a href="/facts/Libertarianism_(metaphysics)/YhLRypGe">metaphysical libertarianism</a> or <a href="/facts/Free_will/LwkImELQ">free will</a>, though it has been argued that an <a href="/facts/Incompatibilist/g51vFRMU">incompatibilist</a> conception of free will is not essential to Kierkegaard's formulation of existentialism. </p><p><i>Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments</i> is a sequel to the earlier <i><a href="/facts/Philosophical_Fragments/jXfvF159">Philosophical Fragments</a></i>. Despite the title of the work, <i>Postscript</i> is almost five times larger than the original work. The pseudonym "Johannes Climacus" is credited as the author and Kierkegaard as an editor. Like his other pseudonymous works, <i>Postscript</i> is not a reflection of Kierkegaard's own beliefs. However, unlike his other pseudonymous works, Kierkegaard attaches his name to this work by crediting himself as an editor. </p>