Kierkegaard is apparently one of the most insightful writers on the human condition ever.
Which of his works best backs up this claim
yeh
I still love Nietzsche and Proust but I'm beginning to find that Kierkegaard saw farther than either and was a more penetrating psychologist and thinker (and a positive one too!) Fear and Trembling is a good starting text. Either/Or is a bigger commitment and is less refined but is a fun ride for the most part.
I can't say which work best backs up that claim because his works are all unified and each does different things (being written from different POVs and styles while explicating his philosophy )
>>7882398
The sickness unto death
>>7882398
I think he was running for president back in '08. Great guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYO0vsI6UM
>>7883481
why do people into philosophy so rarely have a remotely bearable sense of humour?
Why do we masturbate over other writers in absence of our own thought?
>>7883481
perfect
>>7883492
do we
Laughter is the best medicine.
“The same thing happened to me that, according to legend, happened to Parmeniscus, who in the Trophonean cave lost the ability to laugh but acquired it again on the island of Delos upon seeing a shapeless block that was said to be the image of the goddess Leto. When I was very young, I forgot in the Trophonean cave how to laugh; when I became an adult, when I opened my eyes and saw actuality, then I started to laugh and have never stopped laughing since that time. I saw that the meaning of life was to make a living, its goal to be- come a councilor, that the rich delight oflove was to acquire a well-to-do girl, that the blessedness of friendship was to help each other in financial difficulties, that wisdom was whatever the majority assumed it to be, that enthusiasm was to give a speech, that courage was to risk being fined ten dollars, that cordiality was to say "May it do you good" after a meal, that piety was to go to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
>>7883826
I'm supposing this is a critique of what 'people' thought rather than how this character actually feels?
>>7883841
it's not haha laughter, but HahahahAHAHAHAhahahahHAHAHAHA!!!!! laughter.
>>7883843
oh, thanks that's helpful
