Søren Kierkegaard

thought, for they valued its effect on the world, lets go back and take a look at the father of Christian Existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard. Søren Kierkegaard was born to a father who inflicted strict and rigorous religious teaching upon his children. His father felt this was necessary because of his sinful habit that resulted in an affair with his 1st wife’s maid. Kierkegaard, after a broken engagement with his love, was handed over to a life of severe melancholy. Yet as a result of both his personal

Project: Soren Kierkegaard: Mega Mind of the 19th Century Soren Kierkegaard: Mega Mind of the 19th Century As a man whose work spans across areas such as philosophy, theology, devotional literature, and more, Soren Kierkegaard is considered one of the mega-minds of philosophy and the 19th century. He was influenced by many people throughout his life, as well as influencing many people himself. With works that ranged from religious views all the way to developing a “new” way to view our surroundings

A summary, analysis and discussion of Søren Kierkegaard, Training in Christianity[1] I. Introduction In this essay, I will try to summarize, analyze and discuss several pages of Søren Kierkegaard’s Training in Christianity. I will try to focus on his approach to sacred history, a general Christian history and Christianity, which he discusses in this work in relation to faith in God. In other parts of this essay I will attempt also to relate these pages of his work to some key ideas of

2. The Existentialist philosophy, started by Soren Kierkegaard, focuses on self-directed education, finding answers within yourself. Students are not graded because all standards come from themselves. This philosophy emphasizes freedom of choice and mind, and that authentic creative thinking leads to true learning experiences (Cohen). The teacher helps students find their passions and understand who they are. Existentialism has never become prevalent in schools because it is difficult to apply in

Soren Kierkegaard is a Danish philosopher and theologian who attempted to deliver his existentialist point of views. Specifically, Kierkegaard emphasizes the need for humans to take responsibility for their actions and go beyond their “socially imposed identities” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). According to his earliest major work “Either/Or,” he suggests humans are reluctantly stuck between two spheres of life that they must choose between: aesthetic or ethical. He delves into what constitutes

In Søren Kierkegaard’s book, “Philosophical Fragments” he first prefaces his writing by explaining his own inadequacy to do so. It is his desire to deliberate upon the actuality of truth and it’s application to the human existence, but in order to do so, he deemed it necessary to admit that “What is offered here is only a pamphlet...without any claim to being a part of the scientific-scholarly endeavor…” (Preface 1 IV 176). Near the end of his preface Kierkegaard, in efforts to convey his intent

journal with the goal of recounting my travels to different philosophical societies. Remarkably, each one of the three societies I was privileged enough to travel to r igidly followed a renowned philosophy. These were the philosophies of Plato, Soren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The Republic The first society I visited was that of Plato ’s philosophy. The residents were very kind and sought out true meanings of different vi rtues solely by dialectic. They structured their city much the same

encompassing state that manifests as a sickness of the spirit and of the self. Soren Kierkegaard remarks that despair is “a sickness of the spirit, of the self, and accordingly can take three forms: in despair not to be conscious of having self (not despair in the strict sense); in despair not to will to be oneself; in despair to will to be oneself.”1 It seems that this all encompassing state of despair is inescapable, or is it? Kierkegaard believed that despair was sin and that this sin was a sickness unto

it is. Søren Kierkegaard such these sort of questions and this is clear in his book Fear and Trembling in the section entitled Exordium. In this section, there are four different ways a particular story is told of Abraham contemplating fulfilling a duty to God by sacrificing his son to God. In each of these stories, there is a different ending trying to get at why Abraham ‘is the greatest.’ In each of these stories, they show Abraham’s commitment to God in different scenarios. Kierkegaard, writing

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