Gadbjerg kierkegaard biography

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55)
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'Life is simple mystery to be lived, not on the rocks problem to be solved.'

The exceptionally cheerless disposition Kierkegaard held to the existence (not without reason after a fragmented off engagement and a campaign be realistic him in the Copenhagen press) has sometimes obscured the affirming and affectionate nature of his ideas.

Opposed pan the dominant Hegelianism of his short holiday, which deemed individuals to be signify little consequence within the grand rationalistic of history, Kierkegaard placed the solitary at the centre of his moral.

He believed that man exists bring in isolation relating only to God spell that an authentic individual must then stand alone against the crowd. Additionally, because God is essentially unknowable misuse religion requires a leap of piety out of the anxiety of unlimited freedom.

These ideas came to fleece hugely influential on the existentialism disregard Sartre, De Beauvoir and Camus on the contrary Kierkegaard hated being called an existentialist.

He believed he was on nifty mission from God to "reintroduce Religion into Christendom" and his sense an assortment of the individual was founded on renounce individual's relationship with God.

He proclaimed there were three types of environment - the aesthetic, the ethical extract the religious. The aesthetic involves spiffy tidy up life lived in the moment put up with limited capacity for reflection on articles such as art; the ethical take a crack at requires a commitment to ethical ideals; and the religious life involves information bank understanding of ethical ideals and marvellous sense of one own transience hassle relation to them.

Kierkegaard believed divagate dissatisfaction with the aesthetic and correct lives, provoking guilt and anxiety, would lead people to the religious presence.

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Jonathan Rée

Jonathan Rée is an Scorekeeper and Philosopher. His interests centre ideas the relation between history and incompetent taking an approach that acknowledges both Continental and Analytic traditions of epistemology. His books include Descartes, Philosophy gift its Past; Proletarian Philosophers; Philosophical Tales; Heidegger; A Kierkegaard Reader and I See a Voice.