Kierkegaard’s 1849 Discourses on The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air, place great emphasis on joy as a state in which one is present to oneself through living in the present moment. But this seems to conflict with the emphasis in Kierkegaard’s nearly contemporary The Sickness Unto Death on temporality as an essential aspect of human existence, and on the need to synthesize temporality and eternity in order to avoid despair. The two works might then seem to support different answers to the recently much-debated question of whether Kierkegaard had a narrative account of personal identity. I argue that this is not in fact the case, and that Kierkegaard’s account of living in the present is compatible with a narrative self-understanding. In arguing for this conclusion, I compare and contrast Kierkegaard with St. Augustine and T. S. Eliot.

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喜乐临在

克尔凯郭尔 1849 年关于田野百合和空中之鸟的论述非常强调快乐是一种通过活在当下而呈现在自己面前的状态。但这似乎与克尔凯郭尔近乎同时代的《致死之病》中的强调相冲突。时间作为人类生存的一个基本方面，以及综合时间和永恒以避免绝望的必要性。那么，这两部作品似乎支持了对最近备受争议的克尔凯郭尔是否对个人身份进行叙述性描述的问题的不同答案。我认为事实并非如此，克尔凯郭尔对当下生活的描述与叙事性的自我理解相容。在论证这个结论时，我将克尔凯郭尔与圣奥古斯丁和 TS 艾略特进行了比较和对比。