Soren Kierkegaard
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
The Danish philosopher and writer, was one of the founders of existentialism. He is widely regarded as the first existential philosopher or intellectual pioneers or founders of existentialism. Søren Kierkegaard was worried with the fragmentation and meaninglessness of existence, on which there is only dread and despair to him in rejoinder. In his criticism, he dealt with the philosophy of the Romantics, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Kierkegaard emphasized the existence of the individual for whom he was seeking the truth and salvation. He shared the life of people in three stages: in the aesthetic, ethical and religious life. Through its two-volume publication “Either-Or” (1843) he came to fame …
Søren Kierkegaard was born on 5 May 1813 as the seventh child of a wool merchant Michael Petersen Kierkegaard and his wife Anne Sørendatter Lund was born in Copenhagen.
Kierkegaard attended in 1821 to 1830, the school. From 1830 he studied theology at the University of Copenhagen, later moving to the subjects of aesthetics or philosophy. Accepted because of the pietistic attitude of the Father, the melancholic traits, there were often conflicts between him and his son Soren. The father of pietism influenced Kierkegaard’s thought. In May 1838 his first literary work was published with the title “fantastic earthquake”. In the same year his father died, with whom he had reconciled shortly before. From his father he probably took his own tendency to melancholy, which he tried to hide it by others and self-offensive, sarcastic opposite occurred.
Kierkegaard saw it as his obligation against his father to end his theological studies with all. He concluded from it in 1840. During this time he worked intensively with the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In the same year he became engaged to Regine Olsen. The following year he graduated with Scripture “Concept of Irony with constant reference to Socrates.” Also in 1841 he broke the engagement on again. This event drew a lively literary activity by itself. Then first the title was “Either – Or” which he published in 1843 under the pen name Victor Eremita. In the same year he traveled to Berlin and lived there for the reading of the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling.
Søren Kierkegaard had in that time with the satirical magazine “The Corsair” deal. In the further course of this confrontation, he wrote pamphlets in which he asserted that the essence of Christian living are influenced by the principles of self-denial and succession, for example in the article entitled “Practice in Christianity” (1850). His theological stance further away ever further from that of the Danish state church. Kierkegaard criticized in his writings mostly appeared pseudonymously the fragility of contemporary Christianity. These nine polemics emerged with the title “The Moment”. Kierkegaard did in fact emerged as one of the foremost religious and philosophical writers of his time.
He broke from the Romantic period and went on to reject distance Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Hegelianism. Kierkegaard was worried with the question of the possible ways of being Christian in an age of reflection. His theme was only gradually up to date. It was for the Protestant theology in the 20s of the 20th Determining century. But, different philosophical currents that psychoanalysis and the young seal took care of him. In its rift into three stages of life means the aesthetic life of the outside world. He criticized the fact that people rely on the outside world. The inwardness in their self-responsibility, he called the ethical, which he also does not trust. Finally, he realized in the complete give up of self to God, the divine life.
This is what, among other things his book “Christian Discourses” (1848). He demanded absolute devotion to the Christian truth, the “existential” thought. This claim he saw the official Christianity is not fulfilled, which he declined because of it. In the following line stance of Søren Kierkegaard are the dialectical theologians and philosophers of existence. With his death his works were known internationally through translation. Among his other works under other titles such as “From the Papers of One Still Living” (1838), “dread and trembling” (1843), “The Concept of Dread” (1844), “Philosophical Fragments” (1844), “Edifying talk “(1844),” Stages on Life Ways “(1845),” The Book of Eagles “(1847),” acts of like “(1847) or” Two small moral and religious treatises “(1849).
Søren Kierkegaard died on 11 November 1855 in Copenhagen.
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