Søren Kierkegaard A person who wrote and said things

Life Stuff ●born 5/5/1813 ●youngest of seven to merchant father ●family was morbidly cursed ●rich and went to good schools ●rarely left home ●had rivalry with professor ●disagreed with current writing style

View of Points and Historical Spirits ●very religious dad ●believed it was divine will for him to write ●disagreed with the Danish People’s Church ●didn’t believe that observation could reveal the inner divinity of nature ●wondered if you should share your true spiritual beliefs with anyone

Existential/Aesthetic Point-of-View ●the “aesthetic stage of existence” ●prime motivation is the transformation of the boring into the interesting ●criticized from the “ethics point-of-view”

Ethical Point-of-View ●represents the prevailing social norms ●religious perspective changes ●the transformation from aesthetic life to the ethical

Philosophers that Influenced Him Hegel -Idea of romantic comedy -He often directly quoted Hegel Socrates -Drawing one’s attention to the issue of how one exists Kant -Kiekegaards ideas for Works of Love came from Kant’s ideas of the role of love