In Nilosophical Fragments the pseudonymous auther Johannes Climacus explored the question. What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal adcas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, Cincluding Uscientific Ppt n on one level a philosophical jost, yet en another it is Climacus's characterization of the subjective thinker's relation to the truth of Christianity. At once ironic, humorous, and polemical, this work takes on the "ancientific form of a mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. Whereas the movement in the earlier er picodonymous writings is away from the aesthetic, the movement in Pestici away from speculative thought.

Kierkegaard intended top to be his concluding work as an author. The subsequent "second authorship" after The Cenar Affair made Pitopt the turning point in the entire authorship Part One of the text volume examines the truth of Christianity an an objective uc, Part Two the subjective issue of what is involved for the indevidual in becoming a Christian, and the volume ends with an addendam in which Kierkegaard cknowledges and explaim hn relation to the pseudonymous authors and their writing The second volume contain the scholarly apparatues, including a key to references and selected entries from Kierkegaard's journal and papers.