Kierkegaard's Writings, XII, Volume II: Concluding Unscientific PostScript to Philosophical FragmentsIn Philosophical Fragments, the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond the Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, Concluding Unscientific Postscript is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is Climacus's characterization of the subjective thinker's relation to the truth of Christianity. At once ironic,