Søren Kierkegaard

I believe that mutual acceptance of individuality is the key to progress. Some people in society categorize others, failing to look beyond one’s exterior. I believe that without challenging the false labeling of people by their displayed characteristics, it would be unlikely that society would thrive. All my life I was told that I was shy. To other people, “shy” is an appropriate adjective to describe me. This label, however, is one that I fight to escape from. The word “shy” means that I am…

level, there’s no denying that these concepts have had a major influence on shaping our societies and philosophical thought throughout time. Dissenters of the ‘religious status quo’, Soren Kierkegaard and Fredrich Nietzsche, are not exempt from the reach of religiosity and all it involves. Many may interpret Kierkegaard and Nietzsche as antitheses to each other. While one of the philosophers mentioned is thought of as a blatant atheist, and the other a Christian, there are definite fundamental…

the model of faith as depicted in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling has been explored and defined, this, the second chapter, will begin to create the intellectual bridge that will historically link Kierkegaard and the Soviet Union. By creating this link between Kierkegaard and the Soviet Union, Kierkegaard and his philosophy will be observable and understandable within the Soviet context. Kierkegaard’s influence on Soviet thinkers will be documented, linking him with different ideas and…

Kierkegaard blames this on our homogenization of Isaac and The Best. When we think of the story as a man sacrificing his best thing to God it is a wonderful story about a man enriching his relationship to God. Though when we interchange The Best with Isaac…

philosopher by the name of Jean-Paul Sartre coined the term existentialism, but the idea of this philosophy was first brought up by Soren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher. Sartre was heavily influenced by Kierkegaard and his book Begrebet Angest which when translated means The Concept of Dread or The Concept of Anxiety. This book embodies the idea of the first sin. Kierkegaard begins the design with Adam in the Garden of Eden. Adam is innocent and happy until one day God commands Adam…

weigh upon freedom. As people we must live in the moment or we lose the ability to put experiences into context. Tom Stoppard's work of Rosencrantz Guildenstern Are Dead has many existentialism views in each act. A famous Existentialist named Soren Kierkegaard said; Life can only be understood…

Boredom is the feeling of lack of arousal in the world, it is the lack of feeling to engage in a topic. Some examples include David Foster Wallace’s This is Water speech, The Pale King, Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or-Crop Rotation, and finally Terrence Mallick’s Knight of Cups. They all express boredom in different ways, explain it with different analogies and think of it differently. They see the world in the light of boredom. In Wallace’s speech This is Water he explains that people determine…

In Soren Kierkegaard’s The Present Age: On The Death of Rebellion, he argues that this generation, now probably considered to be the last 200 years or so in this context, is one of “understanding and reflection, without passion.” He defines passion as a demonstrative willingness to take action in advocacy or living life in such a way that is beyond aimlessness or spectatorship. Defending Kierkegaard’s argument, I will explain how it is not only sensical, but also yet relevant to our ‘present…

Facing the growing intellectual embrace of objective values and truth in his time regarding matters of how one should live, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard recognized a crisis in the (then) modern conception of selfhood. Similar to the way in which the Greeks speculated about the “good life” (E.g. the way Aristotle associated his idea of eudaimonia with the attainment of the highest form of human rationality), a collective desire for certainty and objective truth amongst his contemporaries…

Compare and contrast various views of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. In Hinduism, Hindus accept that there is one incomparable binding together constrain that makes, secures and safeguards. There are numerous divine beings and gods in the Hindu religion, yet they are all diverse aspects of the one being. A man must be conceived a Hindu, they can't change over. A man must carry on with a decent life and practice graciousness and philanthropy keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish a…