Editing Søren Kierkegaard (section)

===Pseudonyms===
Kierkegaard's most important pseudonyms,{{sfn|Malantschuk|Hong|Hong|2003}} in chronological order, were:
* Victor Eremita, editor of ''[[Either/Or (Kierkegaard book)|Either/Or]]''
* A, writer of many articles in ''Either/Or''
* Judge William, author of rebuttals to A in ''Either/Or''
* Johannes de Silentio, author of ''[[Fear and Trembling]]''
* Constantine Constantius, author of the first half of ''[[Repetition (Kierkegaard)|Repetition]]''
* Young Man, author of the second half of ''Repetition''
* Vigilius Haufniensis, author of ''[[The Concept of Anxiety]]''
* Nicolaus Notabene, author of ''[[Prefaces]]''
* Hilarius Bookbinder, editor of ''[[Stages on Life's Way]]''
* Johannes Climacus, author of ''[[Philosophical Fragments]]'' and ''[[Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments]]''
* Inter et Inter, author of ''[[The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress]]''
* H.H., author of ''[[Two Minor Ethical-Religious Essays]]''
* Anti-Climacus, author of ''[[The Sickness unto Death]]'' and ''[[Practice in Christianity]]''

Kierkegaard explained his pseudonyms this way in ''Concluding Unscientific Postscript'':{{sfn|Kierkegaard|1992|pp=625–626}}

{{Blockquote|In Either/Or, I am just as little, precisely just as little, the editor Victor Eremita as I am the Seducer or the Judge. He is a poetically actual subjective thinker who is found again in "In Vino Veritas". In Fear and Trembling, I am just as little, precisely just as little, Johannes de Silentio as the knight of faith he depicts, and in turn just as little the author of the preface to the book, which is the individuality—lines of a poetically actual subjective thinker. In the story of suffering ({{" '}}Guilty?'/'Not Guilty{{' "}}), I am just as remote from being Quidam of the imaginary construction as from being the imaginative constructor, just as remote, since the imaginative constructor is a poetically actual subjective thinker and what is imaginatively constructed is his psychologically consistent production.}}

All of these writings analyze the concept of faith, on the supposition that if people are confused about faith, as Kierkegaard thought the inhabitants of Christendom were, they will not be in a position to develop the virtue. Faith is a matter of reflection in the sense that one cannot have the virtue unless one has the concept of virtue—or at any rate the concepts that govern faith's understanding of self, world, and God.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Religion|year= 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-78295-1|page=188|edition=2nd}}</ref>