Søren Kierkegaard · Philosophy
Kierkegaard maps three fundamental ways of existing: the <em>aesthetic</em> (living for pleasure, novelty, and possibility, ending in despair and boredom), the <em>ethical</em> (living by commitment, duty, and the universal), and the <em>religious</em> (living before God in faith). One does not drift between them; one <em>leaps</em>, by a choice that makes one a self.
You learned that Kierkegaard maps three modes of existence - aesthetic (living for the immediate and the interesting), ethical (living by commitment and duty), and religious (living before God in faith) - and that one passes between them not by reasoning but by a free leap . Explain the three stages and the leap.
Leads to Socrates.
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