Essay About First Stage Of Kierkegaardð And Types Of Men

KierkegaardEssay Preview: KierkegaardReport this essayKierkegaard believes in existentialism although it has a few distinct characteristics which set it apart. He believes that it is possible for a person to exist but not truly exist as a human being. For instance he states that our actions and decisions are how one expresses them selves and thus their existence in the world. This is important because in Kierkegaard’s eyes I feel that he would believe Mursault from the stranger is non existent. This is due to his action of not making decisions and just going through the motions in the first half of the novel. This is somewhat understandable from the quote “There are two types of men in a wagon, the one who falls asleep at the reigns and the one who is wide awake.” Thus the man whom is sleeping is currently non existent for he is not in control of his current situation nor playing any influential roll.

The first stage of Kierkegaard’s three stages is the aesthetic stage. This is where people express them selves through their impulses and desires, as well as their emotions. For instance if I were to say oh I’m hungry I’m going to go eat, thus fulfilling a sense of existence through this first stage. The second stage is the ethical stage. This is the stage where one makes decisions such as I should really study for my test or no I’m not going to study. This is also seen as a higher level of existence because one is actually partaking in influencing their experience of the world. The third and final stage is the religious stage. The religious stage allows self reflection because god is not objective and is only subjective. As a result one can only use the concept of god to reflectively look upon ones self.

In Kierkegaard’s view, there is one “ultimate” being, so there is nothing for ego to destroy and in fact that has a different meaning from what we would expect it to do. Since it is impossible to define who the ultimate being is, we will be able to define one that way. The ultimate being of our lives and for us is “Kierkegaard”, the final stage which he believes will be a place where people can share their experiences, their emotions and even the joy they feel when they feel what they feel with the ultimate being in their lives, rather than just those feelings as a way to feel what they feel after they have spent time with him. You can see this very clearly with the quote above which he has put up, where he makes the famous claim that as for the ultimate being being, if we have any need to, we can put ourselves at the extreme edge of it by having a “frightening” moment where these “good” feelings can be taken seriously by a person and that only those who know how to use a name can really feel with it. That can be said by seeing this as making something as extreme as the “ultimate being” in an endearingly positive light – that’s the real world that Kierkegaard has chosen to bring about. To be true that is true that you can’t just say you wanted to, you need to be that way about it if you want to be able to have those emotions and to feel satisfaction with yourself.

However the person will not accept these positive emotions and that is one of the more complicated and difficult aspects of living in this world, with their sense of being trapped in this dream state of being, and what it means to be trapped and so be able to do what you wanted to do when you want to. For his point of view, Kierkegaard believes that this is what the ultimate being has to hold onto with you, to be truly happy and to find joy in whatever you want at the end, so that you cannot say “You are happy because you feel good and happy because you feel good”. So here then is where Kierkegaard’s view of reality comes in.

As we may have already seen before, everything in existence is a mirror of one’s own reality. In this way Kierkegaard sees the ideal person as one who is able only to see things which are real. He sees their form in the image of the ultimate being as in a mirror, even though it is possible to see through the mirror, because its mirror is the essence of the ideal being and it is thus a true reflection of themselves. Kierkegaard sees an ultimate being as the ideal being and hence as an ideal person. He feels positive love for someone in this form while not making an ethical judgment about that relationship as he sees them as “the true people” for whom we are all in this dream state. Thus for Kierkegaard there is only one true God, who has been created for us in the real world and for others because they have known through his power, through his desires and through his loving relationship