Aesthetic, Ethical and Religious Life: Distinction between Existential Dialectic between Aesthetic, Ethical and Religious, Kierkegaard on Life

Distinction Between Existential Dialectic Between Aesthetic, Ethical and Religious

• This was put up in counter to the Hegelian system.
• The individual moves from the aesthetic through the ethical and culminates in the religious.
• This process is not linear. One could back and forth. This is a spiral movement.
• This is the first time that a philosopher takes into account the carnal desires (bodily desires) as the object of philosophizing.
• In Kierkegaard, the body is celebrated. Through the behaviour, we give …

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Understanding Existentialism: Existentialism in Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Kierkegaard, Criticism of Hegel

Understanding Existentialism

Existentialism in Continental Philosophy

• Kierkegaard belongs to the genre of Existentialism within Continental philosophy.
• Existentialism: The individual plays a central role in the writings of 19^th and 20^th century. This ran in contrast to the ideas of ancient Greece.
• This individual was decontextualized from the society, nation, gender and so on to reach that spirit which is the base of these.
• What is the substratum of those factors which are said to influence and direct a …

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