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5 days ago · Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a 19th-century Danish philosopher and theologian, known today as the father of existentialism. Kierkegaard’s thought focused on the notions of existence, freedom, responsibility, despair and anguish. His ideas were developed by philosophers such as Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and Jean-Paul Sartre ...
4 days ago · How does Kierkegaard explain anxiety and angst? Do you notice traces of his ideas in how we perform and conceptualize psychology in today's society? Pay attention to Kierkegaard's popular ideas on the "leap of faith" and the three phases of life (aesthetic, ethical, religious).
4 days ago · In the Postscriptum to Thinking, Arendt claimed that the themes she intended to explore in the Judging section of The Life of the Mind were important, among other reasons, on account of “their relevance to a whole set of problems by which modern thought is haunted, especially to the problem of theory and practice.”
1 day ago · Likewise, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (Copenhagen, 1813–Copenhagen, 1855) considered irony (“Ironi” in Danish may refer to the freedom and outrageousness of the fantasy over its object) and humor both as a dialectic and an aesthetic experience , where everything is shown to be vanity or paradox, and therefore “the cognitive and acting subject becomes free” 19.
2 days ago · Existentialism is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence. [1] [2] Existentialist philosophers explore questions related to the meaning, purpose, and value of human existence. Common concepts in existentialist thought include existential crisis, dread, and anxiety in the face of an absurd world and free will ...
3 days ago · For Kierkegaard, Christianity is a moral and spiritual exercise that has the ultimate purpose of teaching human beings their imperfection, their weakness and selfishness, in the face of the transcendent; Kierkegaard’s therapeutic theology is a refusal of the demand from, God as man, the master of technology, leading to Docta Ignorantia, just like in psychoanalysis, as Jacques Lacan argued.
5 days ago · Readership in Decline. By virtue of my encounter with a discussion of secular spirituality and well being, and therefore the pursuit of living well, I find myself contemplating the hero, more specifically the hero of literature as a role model. 1 Once, it was uncontroversial to turn to books for guidance, not just entertainment.
