Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard a Danish philosopher and an author born in May 5, 1813. Growing up he studied theology at seventeen and later sucked into philosophical questions. Known as the "Father of Existentialism" for his individualism. The reason Hegel became a great impact on Kierkegaard happens to be the "Truth with a capital T" because the truth. The important truths according to Kierkegaard, is "meaningful to the individual's life," and that truth is "subjective" which means that important truths are personal. In the other hand Hegel was the mystery of life as a whole, where Kierkegaard pointed out that Hegel forgotten his own existence. A key topic is that characteristics of a crowd is a "conformity" where everybody thinks and believes the same things with no deeper meaning. He believed in three different forms of life the aesthetic stage, the ethical stage, and the religious stage. Where the aesthetic stage is who lives for the moments and grasps every opportunity of enjoyment. A world of senses and to move up it requires an approach which comes from within.

Quotes
"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."

"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."



Famous Work
A few of Søren's well known works: Christian Discourses, The Concept of Irony, and The Works of Love. Christian Discourses theological and devotional in nature expressed through a poetic heart, The Concept of Irony which focused particularly on Socratic irony which gave the purpose of the fundamental truths about life. The Works of Love by Kierkegaard primarily focused on ethics than theological themes.