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Just as scientists maintain that there is no true science without doubt, so it may be maintained with the same right that no genuinely human life is possible without irony28
More importantly Kierkegaard sees irony as a way of liberating us and in this freedom giving us a permission to play in the infinite possibilities of being human:
Irony is a qualification of subjectivity. In irony, the subject is negatively free, since the actuality that is supposed to give the subject content is not there. He is free from the constraint in which the given actuality holds the subject, but he is negatively free and as such is suspended, because there is nothing that holds him. But this very freedom, this suspension, gives the ironist a certain enthusiasm, because he becomes intoxicated, so to speak, in the infinity of possibilities.29
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Box 1.8
The author is alert to the controversial nature of his argument. So he introduces a delightful device. He has an “objections and responses” section. He is well aware that plenty of theologians would not be sympathetic to his approach. So he wants to articulate the objection and offer a response. In so doing, he is making it harder to simply dismiss his argument. He is alert to why someone may find the argument problematic and wants to explain how the problems can be overcome.