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What does it mean to "teleologically suspend the ethical?" I want to know so that I can make quirky, intellectual jokes to impress my friends using cool words like teleologically. Haha I like being part of a cool intellectual group it makes me feel really smart haha. Lol, Donald trump just teleologically suspended the ethical am I right guys? xD Lol it's funny because if you juxtaposed (that's a good, smart person word right?) the cool phrase like "teleologically suspend the ethical" with something like cats/Donald trump/comics it's like what!! that doesn't belong because one thing is like, dumb and the other is smart so haha that doesn't belong!! xD. So yeah what does it mean??? P.S. Pic related is my face when someone says "teleologically suspend the ethical" lmao! (also my favorite author he's a pretty smart guy and he probably knew what it meant to "teleologically..." *loses breath* haha what a long phrase xD)
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Quite the dialectic you've got there. Highest form of aletheia(another greek word) really sheds light on the nature of shitposting as a whole.
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>>7824540
The ends justify the means, basically.
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>>7824571
You mean the ends justify the memes.
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>>7824834
pls no i don't
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highest quality thread Ive seen in a while
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>>7824540
Ignoring the rest of your post assuming you did want an answer,
Kierkegaard was saying that the ethical is "teleologically suspended" in something higher, which is the telos of God. When he says suspend he doesn't mean ended, he means preserved, but not in the sense that pickled are preserved for later but that it is contained within the telos of God.
He's talking about this in terms of the story of Abraham and Isaac. Abraham acts unethically, that is, opposed to the Universal. Keirkegaard is referring here to Kant's categorical imperative in which if the application of one's action to the Universal isn't feasible, it is unethical. So if we took it as law that one may murder another, and apply it to everyone, it does not work. So Abraham acts against the Universal and is "unethical", but Keikegaard argues that he is not unethical, rather, he is appealing to a different telos (end goal) which is God, which contains the Universal. It's a "suspension" of the ethical.
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You inadvertently described the 4chanlit chat
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>>7825861
surprisingly accurate
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