Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/56860
Title: Understanding/Comprehension
Contributor(s): Brake, Matthew (author); McDonald, William  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2015
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/56860
Abstract: 

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.

Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Kierkegaard's concepts, Tome VI, Salvation to writing, v.15, p. 209-214
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Place of Publication: Farnham, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781472461797
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 500207 History of ideas
500208 History of philosophy
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280119 Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: https://www.routledge.com/Volume-15-Tome-VI-Kierkegaards-Concepts-Salvation-to-Writing/Emmanuel-McDonald-Stewart/p/book/9781472461797
WorldCat record: https://www.worldcat.org/title/912277704
Series Name: Kierkegaard research, 15 t. 6, volume 15, tome VI
Editor: Editor(s): Jon Stewart, Steven M. Emmanuel and William McDonald
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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