Essays Tagged: "Søren Kierkegaard"
Existentialism in the early 19th Century. Speaks of writers and philosophers.
, one resembles other morally perfect individuals. The 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who was the first writer to call himself existential, reacted against this tradition by ... s true for me . . . the idea for which I can live or die." Other existentialist writers have echoed Kierkegaard's belief that one must choose one's own way without the aid of universal, objective stan ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
The Philosophy of Religion. The God of Philosophy
that belief per se can be a credible or rational stance to adopt. Furthermore, I will accept Soren Kierkegaard's sceptical stance as an absolute: that rationality has nothing to do with belief in God ... Religious Experience, Penguin, 1983.Kant, I., Critique of Practical Reason, Various editions, 1778.Kierkegaard, S, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, trans. by D.F. Swenson and W. Lowrie, Princeton ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Kierkegaard's Individual, Religious Life vs His Ethical Life and Universality; Are they really mutually exclusive as Kierkegaard claims? Suggested Subject: Humanities:Philosophy:Ethics
d expect to go together, right? That depends on who you ask. In his book, Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard asserts that life is made up of distinct stages and that the ethical life and the religi ... ut who exists, otherwise, in isolation and finitude, in absolute relation to the absolute. However, Kierkegaard failed to address several factors that, when brought up against his line of reasoning, s ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Comparative: Smith and Marx's to Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky's view of god and religion.
y's, and obtain salvation through an absolute devotion to faith. However, the works of Smith, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky prove that argument to be ridiculous. There is no "in between" stance; o ... ocial equality and a strict institution to satisfy basic societal needs.Contrary to Smith and Marx, Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky are singularly concerned with internal happiness, as a result of profound ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Kierkegaard vs Sartre: An Existentialist Approach.
gless, unless one defines that life. Two philosophers actively involved in this position were Soren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre. While both can be considered existentialists, in that the quote ab ... am not personally an existentialist, my life in terms of existentialism has been influenced by both Kierkegaard and Sartre, despite their discrepancies.One major difference between the two is that Sar ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Existentialism and Absurdism. This essay is just to explain what existentialism and absurdism are.
rn expression it had its beginning in the writing of the nineteenth century Danish Theologian Soren Kierkegaard. The German Philosopher Martin Heidegger is important in its formulation, and the French ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Clash Of The Titans: Kierkegaard Vs. Nietzsche On Theories Of Knowledge
Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche are considered by most to be the grandfathers of existentialist ... n, such as the errors of all previous philosophers, they differed on thoughts concerning knowledge. Kierkegaard believed that knowledge could only be communicated to the audience indirectly, and throu ... is the correct one, for in it he explains his concept of will to power and how everyone, including Kierkegaard himself, conforms to it.For Kierkegaard, knowledge can be looked at from two perspective ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
"Faith and Resignation" (Soren Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling")
Søren Kierkegaard earns the classification of an existentialist by rebelling against the common view of He ... cation of an existentialist by rebelling against the common view of Hegel's universal moral system. Kierkegaard contends that one may not choose for an individual; they choose for themselves. Suspendi ... that one may not choose for an individual; they choose for themselves. Suspending the moral system, Kierkegaard reflects upon the force on a suffering individual to choose based on the depth of the ab ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Soren Kierkegaard: Stages on Life's Way
Soren Kierkegaard was born in Copenhagen in 1813. He was often noted as the "Father of Existentialism" but ... was not famous for most of his life.After being accepted into the University of Copenhagen in 1830, Kierkegaard realized that his philosophical theories did not fit into the mold of that time. "Kierke ... at, in doing so, he was rebelling both against his dominating father and against God."(Denise 172). Kierkegaard's father, Michael, who was a very religious man, led a extremely somber life and often s ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Truman's Path to Flying Free.
designed to represent normal society, and the stages that he goes through appear parallel to Soren Kierkegaard's philosophy of the three stages of life: aesthetic, ethical, and "faith" stages.First a ... the three stages of life: aesthetic, ethical, and "faith" stages.First a look into the philosophy: Kierkegaard believed that every person in society eventually could pass through three stages. This p ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
"Camus and the Absurd": Essay explores the existentialist reasonings of Albert Camus and discusses his view of the self in comparison to other existentalist thinkers.
the only man to write about the absurd. Many other existentialist philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche have their own views on what the absurd is, and more importantly ... f the absurd before Camus but they seem to confront it only to then try and escape it. Søren Kierkegaard is an example of this. Kierkegaard uses the term infinite resignation to explain the poi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
The Rise of Existentialism and Phenomenology
was first seen in the late twentieth century in the works of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Soren Kierkegaard, and finally Friedrich Nietzsche. These three men had a strong dislike for the optimisti ... to make everything seem rational are merely useless attempts to conquer pessimism and despair.Soren Kierkegaard ridiculed Hegel's system wherein the individual dissolves into an abstract unreality and ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Essay on kierkegaard
Willed Faith and Belief An essay on Kierkegaard 1. Introduction Can we will to believe what we choose? Are there times when we should at ... the history of philosophy.In his book Religious Belief and the Will2, Louis Pojman identifies Soren Kierkegaard as a direct prescriptive volitionalist, i.e. a thinker who holds that beliefs can and ou ... efs can and ought to be (at least in some circumstances) directly willed.C. Stephen Evans, in "Does Kierkegaard Think Beliefs Can Be Directly Willed?"3 responds to Pojman's position, arguing that the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Kierkegaard and christianity
Soren Kierkegaard is said to be one of the "founding fathers" of existentialism. His style of writing, his ... though either of them would probably deny this vehemently). However, in the course of his writings, Kierkegaard takes quite a liberal and (dare I say it?) individualistic stand on the side of Christia ... (dare I say it?) individualistic stand on the side of Christianity. In the passages I have read of Kierkegaard ("That Individual" and "Truth is Subjectivity"), he puts forward two basic themes which ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Kierkegaard: Ethics And Religion
Kierkegaard: Ethics and Religion Where is the line drawn? That seems to be the question rais ... what he or she perceives to be God's commands? To the extent of killing one's own son? According to Kierkegaard, the distinction between what we deem ethical and what we deem as service to God has blu ... nd. Abraham's experience shows that one can be forced to disregard ethics if God so commands, which Kierkegaard views as the paradoxical nature of religion. To quote: "In the story of Abraham we find ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Kierkegaard's understanding of faith as a paradox, whereby the particular is higher than the universal, and therefore demands a teleological suspension of the ethical.
In his book Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard deals with the concept of faith and the idea of sacrifice, focusing particularly on the ... ial norms - the process through which he earns honor and glory as the father of faith. This is what Kierkegaard calls "the teleological suspension of the ethical", and concludes that faith is essentia ... spending the ethical in favour of a higher authority, God for example. In this essay I will present Kierkegaard's understanding of faith as a paradox, whereby the particular is higher than the univers ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Continental Philosophy
organized. In this time countries were at war and people were trying to understand the world. Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) looked at Hegel’s theory as if it was not possible. Kierkegaard believe ... if it was not possible. Kierkegaard believed in the abstract of unreality to understand the times. Kierkegaard said the visible world was irrational, so you can turn to the invisible for support. To ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Existentialism in "The Seventh Seal"
and the Russians Nicholai Berdyaev and Lev Shestov. Such names from the nineteenth century as Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche came to be seen as precursors for the movement, which is as much ... ductory actions would positBlock among the most serious of all early existentialists - Søren Kierkegaard, according to whom the singularity of existence comes to light at the moment of conflict ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Postmodernism
eferred to it to mean the movement of socialist realism in painting.By the late 19th century, Soren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth's important fideist approach, or the view that religious knowledge depend ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Soren Kierkegaard
I believe Soren Kierkegaard was a great Philosopher but insane. I will show what makes him a great Philosopher and w ... sopher but insane. I will show what makes him a great Philosopher and why I like him the best.Soren Kierkegaard was born in 1813 in Copenhagen. Kierkegaard was considered insane by most standards. In ... e by most standards. In most of the history books, a lot of philosophers were insane from syphilis. Kierkegaard was mostly influenced by his father. As a child he was mentally abused by his father. Th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy