According to Kierkegaard, when we first find life boring, we seek new delights. He called this the aesthetic stage of life. Kierkegaard focused particularly on art and the erotic, but the category ...

See also the following works by Kierkegaard (various editions): Stages on Life’s Way, Either/Or, The Sickness unto Death, and his Journals. More from Michael W.

By way of example, in the later stages of his life, Kierkegaard decided that the only correct moral response to the current human condition was religious martyrdom. Here, his mystical attitude ...

The 19th-century philosopher Soren Kierkegaard described our freedom to choose in life as a dizzying anxiety; more precisely, he called anxiety "the dizziness of freedom." In The Concept of ...

had written a stage adaptation of Kierkegaard’s book Repetition for the occasion. The play was performed in the church that evening, bringing Kierkegaard to life in a way I could not have ...

Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) was more concerned with learning how to express our ideals in the medium of action than he was in developing ethical theories. (Luplau Janssen ...

By weaving Søren Kierkegaard’s life story around the Socratic question he obsessively asked—what does it mean to be human?—he becomes sympathetic in Carlisle’s hands. If Kierkegaard ...

Early in life, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was bestowed the nickname gaflen, or “fork,” for his talent at detecting weakness in others — and his taste for prodding at it.

Kierkegaard thought it was this seriousness that his own age, caught up in newspaper gossip in the streets and abstract theorising in the pulpits, was missing. In his short life (he died ...