ABSTRACT
The concept of truth is one of the most central concepts, if not the most central concept, in Kierkegaard’s thought. In this entry I will chart some of the major treatments of the subject of truth in Kierkegaard’s writings and in doing so attempt to give the reader a sense of the interconnected or, indeed, unified nature of Kierkegaard’s reflections on this concept. While, prima facie, these treatments might seem to contain different concepts of truth, they are united by a common motivation and agenda. Put otherwise, these different treatments concern the same concept of truth, even if they stress different facets of it. The main question regarding truth, for Kierkegaard, is whether it is the province of man or God: whether human beings are capable of determining the truth about their own nature or are dependent upon God to reveal that truth to them.
