Kierkegaard Essays

works of Sören Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855): the existentialist savant, theologist, religious writer and advocate of the Idea of Christianity, Kierkegaard was still moderately obscure. Drucker was captivated by the philosophy embraced by this philosophical independent, in particular, to utilize logic as an instrument for reflecting upon Christianity. Kierkegaard suspected that people existed in an element relationship as both profound creatures and individuals from society. As per Kierkegaard, it is conviction

As a student pursuing a major in Security and Risk Analysis, also known as Cyber Security, it has been repeatedly drilled into my head how much potential the Internet has to change the ways in which people experience the external world in which we live, for better or for worse. The Internet, consisting of a gargantuan amount of data, is composed of more than 150 million websites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, or other virtual worlds such as Second Life. Such websites, made possible by the Internet

Effects of Video Games on Youth Technology has been evolving since the days of the cavemen and has become an integral component of our everyday life. Technology has been integrated in education, media, the workplace, and our world runs around the evolution and ever developing fast pace of technology. Modern technology especially effects the youth of today’s day and age, because they have grown up with extremely advanced technology and are completely engrossed by it. The primary concern people

1. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism are polytheistic. They share the same notions of enlightenment, karma, samsara, and reincarnation. Karma is the belief that what you do will eventually bear similar fruits. Samsara, on the other hand, is the belief that people live many lives and survives many lifetimes, though as different beings. Samsara is similar to reincarnation. Enlightenment makes one to be in the same accord with the universe and one that can choose what to be and when to be. Hinduism believes

babies are being born everyday. History is not repeating itself. We are simply turning the pages of time and on every page there is a different life story. There are many people who agree with this train of thought: Nancy J. Holland and Soren Kierkegaard. Both of these people agreed that education is relative because both the teacher and the student learn from each other because both of their lives are changing everyday. Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget researched and concluded that knowledge

The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard begins his book, The Sickness Unto Death like this: “Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self.” I understand The Fall of the House of Usher in these terms; the story is a description of the sick self, the sick spirit, the mortally morbid human. The title provides a reasonable summary of the story: the subject is the House of Usher and what happens to the House

associating negative images with the actions of ignorant readers. In stanza 1 of “Marginalia”, one comment reads “I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head”. Collins tells the audience that this comment was written in the margins of Kierkegaard or Conor Cruise O’Brien, who are known to be brilliant writers. Before reading this, most of the audience probably would have considered a negative comment harmless- just a statement of opinion. However, the use of words like “bolt” and “beat” convoke

Gilgamesh goes back to 2000 BC, Egyptian love poetry was written on papyri and vases between 1300 and 1100 BC, and Chinese folk love songs were first documented between 1000 BC and 700 BC. Countless philosophers, from Plato to Martin Luther, from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Santayana and Sartre have also devoted their writings to conceptualizing love. Freud looks at love from the perspective of the sexual drive. According to him, love as well as sexuality is rooted in infancy (Freud, 1905). A person's

As eloquently stated by the prolific author Søren Kierkegaard, “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night features many “fools”, those led by the nose through desire and other means, and those who turned away from the truth. Of all those fools, one stands out from the others—Malvolio, a steward who chases his mistress, Olivia. As a man who flaunts his foolishness through his gullibility and

The Stranger in Us All: How Camus’s Classic Connects to Other Philosophical Works Macy French Tusculum College Author’s Note This paper was prepared for Dr. Harlow’s Quest for Meaning class at Tusculum College Albert Camus once said “Forever I shall be a stranger to myself” (Camus, 1942/2004, p 453). In his classic novel, The Stranger, the main character is the archetypal absurd man who lives only in the realm of his own aesthetic until being faced with his own death (Camus, 1942)