It is a bit confusing and hard to comprehend both writings as I try to reread and analyze the text to the best of my abilities. I will try my best to describe and illustrate my opinion and contrast of both Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death and Heidegger’s Being and Time, including the most important context in Kierkegaard’s text and why. I will also like to incorporate the different attitudes each character in the film The Seventh Seal had towards life, religion, and death in relation to both philosophers.
Kierkegaard The Sickness unto Death, defines the design of despair as being the “illness to the self”. Despair is the “sickness unto death” that corrupts and has conflict with the human being. The understanding of the human being according to Kierkegaard is an individual being crafted by both a spiritual and physical component.(43) Despair is defined as developed by the growth of the conflict between the spiritual or soul and the physical, outer experience with the world. Despair is an obstacle between one’s self as he describes despair as a sin from human beings. Both text Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death comes across as the only way a human being can escape from despair would be through the force of true …show more content…
Death is the end of the being according to Heidegger and in the film death is approached as the end of the main character the Knight. He prolongs death or tries to cheat death with extending time between the last moments and death. His character cannot understand the complexity of death and the ordeal of the result of death in the afterlife. He questions his own faith and God’s existence because the fear of death and the end of the being is upsetting. According to Heidegger death is inevitable, but one cannot destine to die on their own
Kierkegaard The Sickness unto Death, defines the design of despair as being the “illness to the self”. Despair is the “sickness unto death” that corrupts and has conflict with the human being. The understanding of the human being according to Kierkegaard is an individual being crafted by both a spiritual and physical component.(43) Despair is defined as developed by the growth of the conflict between the spiritual or soul and the physical, outer experience with the world. Despair is an obstacle between one’s self as he describes despair as a sin from human beings. Both text Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death comes across as the only way a human being can escape from despair would be through the force of true …show more content…
Death is the end of the being according to Heidegger and in the film death is approached as the end of the main character the Knight. He prolongs death or tries to cheat death with extending time between the last moments and death. His character cannot understand the complexity of death and the ordeal of the result of death in the afterlife. He questions his own faith and God’s existence because the fear of death and the end of the being is upsetting. According to Heidegger death is inevitable, but one cannot destine to die on their own