Søren Kierkegaard

always be holes and spaces. I agree with Kierkegaard because as these empty spaces are logical spaces, it is hard to fill them, so instead one tends to fill these spaces with faith. What characterizes faith is the absolute uncertainty that follows behind it. Faith is understood as something that cannot be disapproved. Instead of focusing everything on rationality, we should focus more on faith because reason has no place in faith. That is why I agree with Kierkegaard and believe his argument is…

For those doubting Thomas’s of the New World Order it is likely that they perceive it as elites how the best interest of the people. The only problem with this viewpoint is that money is a very influential component of society. The very foundation of government is built on currency and that there is a value on the resources one processes. Since the New World Order allegedly hold 66% of the world wealth within one percent it is a resemble assumption that they can influence and dictate the outcome…

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” This quote is penned by Soren Kierkegaard and has become one of the most influential examples that I lead my life by. Everyone has a story, whether a person’s story comes from overcoming adversity or facing their demons, it’s their story or their accomplishment; and mine is no different. When I was younger I was faced with one of the greatest challenges life has to offer, my mother passed away from cancer at the tender age…

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards” Søren Kierkegaard. While the past is important we can’t live there. We must go forward in life not backward, advice Jay Gatsby would have benefited from. Gatsby went to some extremes trying to recreate his past and paid the price. When one lives their life in the past the only thing that will become of it is misfortune. Gatsby spent a majority of the five years he and Daisy were apart trying to get back to her. Allowing the…

With the 2016 presidential election quickly approaching, a popular conversation has been voter fraud and voter suppression. Voter suppression reached headline news with the Arizona state primary, and has been a controversy in the lead up to the presidential election since then. The act of suppressing votes, from both party lines, infringes upon the most fundamental American right; the right to vote in those who will speak on our behalf. It also brings up in interesting existentialist dilemma.…

than human, they are able to treat them as less than human. This is, more or less, argued in Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love. In this essay, Kierkegaard discusses the concept of loving your neighbor as you love yourself. Based off of the assumption that every person loves themselves and would therefore treat themselves with the utmost virtue, this concept relies on the Bible to prove its point. Kierkegaard argues that “If there are only two people, the other person is the neighbor; if there…

In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the people of Oceania are led to believe that every moment of everyday watchful eyes are keeping an account of everything you do and everything you say. Someone sitting, watching and following your every action, even anticipating your next move is rather questionable by today’s standards, yet in Nineteen Eighty- Four, it is all the people know. The watchful eye of Big Brother, the leader of the party and an enemy of the free man, yet in Winston’s society there…

was achieved through the literary fictional works of Sartre’s, such as Nausea and No Exit. Among the major philosophers identified as existentialists were Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber, the nineteenth century philosophers, Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, came to be seen as precursors of the movement. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, a French philosopher, author, and playwright, coined the term: Existence…

Anais, Alonso Module #3 PHI2010 1 Compare and contrast various views of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest religions. It predates written records and its origins are lost in the past. The term Hinduism refers to the collection of faiths that are believed to have originated in India, but other scholars believe that was brought to India a long ago by nomadic people. It is a polytheistic system with various gods and goddesses as well as lesser deities.…

then there’s got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately when you’re at the edge you have to forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.”YoYo Ma. The phrase "leap of faith" is a metaphor used by the 19th c. Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.(4)Leap of faith means believing something intangible or improvable. It is not believe anything blindly. It is a concept that you are sure that is on there but how you don’t know…