''Judge for Yourselves!'' (subtitle: ''For Self-Examination, Recommended to the Present Age, Second Series'') is a work by Danish philosopher

Søren Kierkegaard Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( , ; ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danes, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical tex ...

. It was written as part of Kierkegaard's second authorship and published posthumously in 1876. This work is a continuation of '' For Self-Examination''. This work continues a critique of Christendom,

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as a social and political entity, and its cultural accommodation. Kierkegaard discusses

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Jacob Mynster as a representative of

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and one of the main reasons ''Judge for Yourselves!'' was not published in Kierkegaard's lifetime was of his personal respect for Mynster.Hong, Howard V. & Edna H. ''The Essential Kierkegaard''. Princeton University Press, 2000.

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