TY - CHAP
T1 - Understanding/Comprehension
AU - Brake, Matthew
AU - McDonald, William
PY - 2015/12/31
Y1 - 2015/12/31
N2 - The word Forstaaelse is derived from the Old Danishforstande, which is borrowed from the Middle Low German vorstan, from the Old Saxonfarstandan. It is cognate with the English word "understanding," which was originally the act of standing under something in order to observe it.1 By extension, it is the act, relation or condition of comprehending the meaning of a thing, like a book or natural phenomenon. It can also have the connotation of sympathizing with a person, or harmonizing, as between different political entities. To have an understanding with someone may be to be in complicity or cahoots,2 or, more positively, to be on the same wavelength.
AB - The word Forstaaelse is derived from the Old Danishforstande, which is borrowed from the Middle Low German vorstan, from the Old Saxonfarstandan. It is cognate with the English word "understanding," which was originally the act of standing under something in order to observe it.1 By extension, it is the act, relation or condition of comprehending the meaning of a thing, like a book or natural phenomenon. It can also have the connotation of sympathizing with a person, or harmonizing, as between different political entities. To have an understanding with someone may be to be in complicity or cahoots,2 or, more positively, to be on the same wavelength.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Volume-15-Tome-VI-Kierkegaards-Concepts-Salvation-to-Writing/Emmanuel-McDonald-Stewart/p/book/9781472461797
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781472461797
VL - 15
T3 - Kierkegaard research, 15 t. 6, volume 15, tome VI
SP - 209
EP - 214
BT - Kierkegaard's concepts, Tome VI, Salvation to writing
A2 - Stewart, Jon
A2 - Emmanuel, Steven M.
A2 - McDonald, William
PB - Ashgate Publishing Limited
CY - Farnham, United Kingdom
ER -