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Topic: Kierkegaard

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OP - January 12, 2012, 03:07 PM

Anyone familiar with Kierkegaard's works?

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Reply #1 - January 12, 2012, 06:11 PM

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Reply #2 - January 12, 2012, 07:31 PM

Briefly.

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Reply #3 - January 12, 2012, 08:12 PM

I have heard of kierkegaard but only from Mr Bolovski in The Young Ones!

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Reply #4 - January 13, 2012, 12:24 AM

the christian existentialist. very poetic. i've read 'fear and trembling'. a lot of good arguments. one of the few religious philosophers i highly admire.
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Reply #5 - January 13, 2012, 12:34 AM

I was and still reading one of his works '' Concept of anxiety" and i came across one of his quote

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom"

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Reply #6 - January 13, 2012, 12:37 AM

hmm, haven't heard of that from him. sounds a lot like dostoevsky.
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Reply #7 - January 13, 2012, 12:47 AM

Aha you are reading Søren? Good Ol Søren. Begrepet angst (Concept of Anxiety). I have the book, but its to late and i am too lazy to check it out. I will do it tomorow.

PS: That book is actually the more difficult one to start with. You should start with Frykt og beven (Fear and Trembling) which Abood mentioned.

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Reply #8 - January 13, 2012, 01:04 AM

yeah, it was bit hard to grasp it,lol. i will go look for it now.

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Reply #9 - January 13, 2012, 03:11 PM

Yup its from Kierkegaard. To grasp it more check out here (second literature is good):

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The individual is thereby subject to an enormous burden of responsibility, for upon h/er existential choices hangs h/er eternal salvation or damnation. Anxiety or dread (Angest) is the presentiment of this terrible responsibility when the individual stands at the threshold of momentous existential choice. Anxiety is a two-sided emotion: on one side is the dread burden of choosing for eternity; on the other side is the exhilaration of freedom in choosing oneself. Choice occurs in the instant (Øjeblikket), which is the point at which time and eternity intersect — for the individual creates through temporal choice a self which will be judged for eternity.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/

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Reply #10 - January 13, 2012, 04:15 PM

That sounds interesting, thanks for clarifying this. Im about to start reading Fear and Trembling now.

I like your avatar, nice one, i assume you have read it already

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