Kierkegaard and the fragility of evidence rational for the existence of God

Abstract

This article is to discuss the critical Soren Kierkegaard to Hegel's rationalism, specifically, its refutation of the possibility of rational proofs for the existence of God. The analysis shall refer mainly to the third chapter of Philosophical Fragments work, text in which the Danish thinker points out the inconsistencies of both a priori arguments (ontological proof) and a posteriori arguments (teleological proof). For Kierkegaard, such arguments have no demonstrative value with regard to the existence of God, since all the discussion about God part of an assumption. This assumption, however, is posed by faith.