Understanding Kierkegaard՚s Literatures: Work 1: The Aesthetic Life, Work 2: Fear and Trembling

Understanding Kierkegaard՚s Literatures

Work 1: the Aesthetic Life

• In Kiekegaard՚s work, irony plays the border area role between the aesthetic and ethical life. Also, it acts as an entry point into the aesthetic life, through which one can take a step back from one՚s own views and beliefs to examine and reflect on them. The aesthete who uses irony lacks genuine communication due to the use of irony to manipulate reality itself.
• Reflective Aesthete: According to Kierkegaard, the aesthetic life has not …

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Aesthetic, Ethical and Religious Life: The Ethical Life, Kierkegaard՚s Three Stages of Life, the Ethical Stage

The Ethical Life

• This is that through which one becomes what one is.
• In this level, there is reflection. One analyses categories, concepts, evolutional norms and there is assessment of the self.
• There are no experiences which have no interpretation -Heidegger. The ethical is the reflective.
• Reflection furnishes experience with category of differentiation between the varieties of aesthetics. (This pleasure is good or bad, this is suffering and I want to avoid it).
• In reflection arises the I, pure individu…

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