Søren Kierkegaard

In all circumstances, there is an audience - be it a packed auditorium, with people pushing to sit close to the front of the room, spell bound by every word escaping the speakers lips, or a quiet setting, where the only audience is the individual, speaking to himself. Regardless of the size or location, words are impactful to whomever they’re delivered. Admired are the individuals who realize a moment to persuade and seize it readily. Harvey Milk is one such individual. Milk’s role as a…

Søren Kierkegaard expresses this as a tautology, where this issue of Abraham being a knight of faith but in the realm of the universal ethical he is considered morally unethical and a murderer, is a formula that is true in every possible interpretation, regardless if the context may differ. One can infer from Søren Kierkegaard, that he may argue that being a single individual is the severest thing for one to be…

existential psychotherapy. May suffered from tuberculosis during his adult years, which at the time he turned his attention to books specifically those of Soren Kierkegaard. Soren Kierkegaard is considered the founder of the modern existential, he encouraged existential psychotherapy during the 18th and 19th century but nothing much happened. Kierkegaard inspired May to pursue the expansion of existential psychology. May introduced existential psychology to the US with his book Existence (1958) …

and religion should not be viewed as two separate entities, rather as two sides of the same coin. My opinion is backed up by the Danish Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, and the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas, With the evidence presented by these thinkers, I truly believe that science and religion can coexist peacefully. Born in 1813, Soren Kierkegaard is often viewed as the founder of the philosophy of Existentialism. This is loosely described as the philosophy of the…

philosophical ideas that I frequently find myself pondering as I go about my day. One idea that sticks out the most is Soren Kierkegaard’s Leap of Faith. Soren Kierkegaard definitely has opened my eyes to what it truly means to take a “leap of faith.” This is one of the hardest things anyone will ever do in their life, and I can personally testify to that. According to Kierkegaard a leap of faith requires a commitment to oneself that lacks logic, proof, and reason. Studying…

Christendom, and being a reactory to Hegel’s historical and political philosophies. Kierkegaard saw the individual to be of the most importance when evaluating concepts such as truth and religion because Kierkegaard saw all truth to be a subjective phenomenon; therefore, every philosophical system can only be true insofar as it allows for the individual to reach the individual's version of truth; for Kierkegaard, truth was found by a “leap of faith” into the religious life. Nietzsche, on the…

hope that Andy Dufresne had with him the whole time he was in prison. It is the hope that we find Søren Kierkegaard and Albert Camus talk about – existentialist hope. After having read on the philosophies of the two existentialists, I started to realize how I could see that hope being portrayed in this movie. Existentialism is focused on human existence and how to become fully human. For Kierkegaard, to exist means to stand out which was exactly what Andy did a few months after he entered…

specific existential philosophers such as Soren Kierkegaard proves his strong notion of existentialism. Moreover, the novel has an underlying theme of the…

of can we prove that God exists, Soren Kierkegaard and Sir Francis Bacon would have different answers. Kierkegaard believes that “Faith, not logic, is the basis of belief”, while Bacon believed that “nature should be interrogated”. Although both philosophers believe in God, through Kierkegaard’s methodology, one could come to the conclusion that God exists, while through Bacon’s methodology one would not be able to come to the conclusion that God exists. Kierkegaard was a practicing Christian,…

Secularization introduces many perspectives on the essence of religion. Friedrich Schleiermacher, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Søren Kierkegaard were all 19th century philosophers who were authors of intellectual, religious writings. They each expressed their outlook on the essence of religion and expanded on their theories specifically. According to Friedrich Schleiermacher, feeling is an object of religion. Religious feelings are an infinite state of consciousness and knowledge is self-conscious…