ABSTRACT
In Chapter 6, we develop Kierkegaard’s positive account of conversion, arguing that he regards ethical transformation as always and only a product of external intervention. In this regard, Kierkegaard’s account of non-religious conversion parallels his account of Christian conversion: In the same way that God’s love is needed to transform the heart of the Christian, various ethical experiences are the necessary means by which the desires and commitments of an aesthete transform.
