so, my parents named me after this guy, figured i would see what made him so special, anyone wanna breakdown what he was all about? i would appreciate it.
What are you looking for and why are you looking for
the gloomy dane?
Kropotkin
Ask your parents?
Christian existentialist.
Phlosophy and religion matters to the individual;
who is not just part of Hegel’s world-spirit.
I recommend reading him.
He always has interesting things to say.
I can imagine why they named you after him.
For me, he’s one of those writers you wish you could have for a friend.
(And, through books, you can.)
thats deep dude
After reading Either/Or vol I’s “Diary of a Seducer,” i’m not sure i’d want him as a friend…
Soren Kierkegaard’s philosophy centered around the idea that feelings are the standard of human truth and that humanity shapes its own basic nature depending on the direction one chooses to take their life.
There is much more to it than that however I dont have the time to dissect the entire mode of existentialist thought.
However if you wish to read up on existentialism here is a link.
i disagree. In his Postscript, he does go to great lengths to talk about subjectivity and God. He wants to both attack “Christendom” and yet affirm some kind of Christianity. That is, Truth is not some set of propositions, but rather God itself and we acquire Truth by relating subjectively with the incarnation of God (that is, Christ) and transcends that subjectivity through the leap into faith. “In the infinite resignation the individual becomes conscious of his eternal validity, and only for the person who possesses such a consciousness can there be a person of grasping existence by means of faith” (Reidar Thomte, Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Religion, (Princeton: Princeton, 1947): 57). Also, in Stages upon Life’s Way, Kierkegaard further emphasizes this through the three stages of aesthetic, ethical, and religious.
Why not? He likes going out to plays.
(or at least his nom de plume does.)
Besides, that’s the aesthetic ethic talking.
“Everyone was great in his own way and everyone in proportion to the greatness of what he loved. For he who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others become great through his devotion, but he who loved got became greater then all†- “fear and trembling†(Penguin, London, 2003, pg 50).
It’s an affirmation of the individual’s leap of faith rather then merely affirmation of Christianity, which Kierkegaard chose to affirm but at the same time individualise rather then continue orthodox Christianity. Which he felt got in the way of the individuals absolute relation to the absolute.