Kierkegaard Essays

Kierkegaard expresses that "the most dangerous, if not the most respectable of all diseases [ is] to admire in public what is considered unimportant in private - since everything is made into a joke." (9) This statement brings to light the contrasts between what is 'dangerous' and what is 'respectable' in Kierkegaard's present age. Within those extremes we face the issues of the collective organism of people that is the public, the problem with talkativeness, the opposition of reflection and deliberation

sense, we can see how Kierkegaard uses the craft of the seducer to push the boundaries of our thought on art. The seducer’s project is not to merely seduce his prospective lover; rather this is merely a tool. The aim of the seducer is to craft his courtship in such a way that maximizes the richness of

While trying to figure out what Kierkegaard’s definition of a human being is. One first needs to know who Kierkegaard was, he was a Lutheran philosopher from Denmark around the 1900’s. Kierkegaard’s was a philosopher who studied Existentialism. Kierkegaard paid close attention to how religion can help with Angst unlike Nietzsche and Sartre. Existentialism is the attention to angst, which means a feeling of deep anxiety that is persistent worrying about something. He focused on three main ideas on

and what it intends. It deals also with the philosophy of McCarthy in the realm of literature and his life. The second chapter explores the different studies dealt with the novel the Road previously and the existential philosophy of Camus and Kierkegaard. Chapter three will provide a room for discussion on absurd road and a clear analysis on Camusian rebel. Chapter four aims to shed light on Kierkegaard's Hero and the Protagonist and its interaction in the novel. It sets out to unfold the protagonist's

Today, I’m not sure where I would fall. Now that I have studied Kierkegaard and other existential writers, I am now aware of this imbalance, yet I am still not completely aware of my imbalance caused by despair. Personally I still don’t see this distress in my life. Knowing about despair in the imbalance of the absurd and not knowing what to do with this information nor how or even why I should act against it in my own life. Heightened consciousness is necessary in order to go from inactive to an

When concerning yourself with what it is to be human, philosophically speaking, there is no better vantage point than existentialism, which mainly addresses the question of human existence. Nietzsche and Kierkegaard both view man as an intermediary being on his way to reaching true potential: overcoming himself! In various writings they speak of man as something to be overcome. They believe in man as having a constant self, the belief that gives continuity to their lives. Despite some of their similarities

Famous philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard states, “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” Anxiety has removed people from their full potential emotionally, mentally, and physically. The year anxiety started to remove me was freshman year during volleyball season. I didn’t look forward to practice or games. Unfailingly hearing, “get on the line,” after every single slight mistake in the butterfly drill. Being in shape for cross country because we constantly had to run instead of actually doing fundamental

general summary of “The Sickness Unto Death” (Kierkegaard 1849) will be provided, with commentary. In Part I.A., Kierkegaard sets up the basic definition of the words he means to explain through his book. He regards the human self to “relate itself to itself” (9). The key concept to draw from this definition is that it is a distinct feature of being

Soren Kierkegaard was born lived from 1813 to 1855 and generally referred to as the father of existentialism, he was a radical Christian. Existentialism expresses the idea that any human being exists is free to act according to one’s will, and must find and choose their purpose in life. However Jean-Paul Sartre, born in 1905 and died in 1980, was also an existentialist but was known to be a radical atheist. Being an existentialist is possible no matter what a person believes.     Soren Kierkegaard

essence of what it means to be theistic, with respect to that discipline. Thinkers like Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard go on this spiritual quest using radical theism to grasp a whole understanding of what it means to be Christian. This means they have to analyze, question, and separate themselves from traditional religion, in doing so they end up displaying an expression of existentialism.