Kierkegaard Essay Examples and Topics

Kierkegaard begins his journal entry explaining how he cannot establish himself as a student. It is for this reason that he is searching for his “I”. He’s not concerned with what he knows or what he should seek to know, instead, he’s concerned with what…

The invention of the term is attributed to Kierkegaard; the best explanation for the word angst is given by the terms ‘existential anxiety’ or anguish. ‘Dread’ is another word. It is held as a negative feeling arising out of the experience of human freedom and…

With many Christians and people who follow the teachings of God, the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22 was probably one of the most popular parts in the Bible. While the original story is a story of faith and sacrifice, the four divergent…

Kierkegaard did not believe that God defined and created human morality, instead he believed that it was up to us as individuals to define our own morals, values, and ethics. Kierkegaard wanted man to ‘wake up’ and renounce the cosy, sentimental illusions of modern life….

Philosophy is a critical reflection of religion and its content, and as such it only moves within the limits of the mind. According to both Kant (58) and Kierkegaard (64), philosophy is in a certain paradoxical situation of the human mind because it disturbs some…

Kierkegaard’s Despair To begin to understand Kierkegaard’s argument one must first understand how Kierkegaard chooses to define the self. Kierkegaard attempts to accomplish this by showing the self as “a relation that relates itself to itself”. To explain this phrase, Kierkegaard describes this phenomenon as…

Kierkegaard and Lewis What is love? If such a question were posed to an assembly of a hundred people, each person could potentially provide a different answer. None would be right. But then, none would be completely wrong either. From Plato to Singer, love has…

Soren Kierkegaard and Sam Harris place faith at opposing sides of the moral spectrum. Kierkegaard believes that committing to one’s absolute duty to God is the only way to live a meaningful life and that Abraham enters the highest level of morality when he takes…