| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | search |
S?ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
S?ren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, religious author, and psychologist. He strongly criticized the philosophies of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel and the Christianity of the State Church versus the Free Church.Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives, focusing on the priority of concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment. His theological work focuses on Christian ethics, institution of the Church, and on the difference between purely objective proofs of Christianity and a subjective relationship to Jesus Christ, the God-Man, which comes from faith. His psychological works explore the emotions and feelings of individuals when faced with life choices. His thinking was influenced by Socrates and the Socratic method. |
|
If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the idée fixe that a tyrant is one man, they would easily understand that to be persecuted by the masses is the most grievous of all, because the masses are the sum of the individuals, so that each individual makes his little contribution, while he does not realize how great it becomes when all of them do it.
— The Journals of Sören Kierkegaard
|