Søren Kierkegaard · Philosophy

That Individual, and the Attack on Christendom

Kierkegaard’s practical mission: to recover the single individual - ‘that individual’ - from the anonymous crowd, and to expose the comfortable ‘Christendom’ that had turned the infinite demand of faith into respectable social conformity. His furious final campaign insisted that becoming a Christian is the hardest task there is.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Kierkegaard’s practical aim was to make people into single individuals (‘that individual’) rather than units of the crowd (‘the crowd is untruth’), and that his final campaign attacked ‘Christendom’ for cheapening faith into respectable conformity. Explain &ls…

Leads to Friedrich Nietzsche.

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