Kierkegaard

Question 1

What are spheres of existence?

Answer 1

different paradigms of existence

Question 2

What are the three spheres of existence that Kierkegaard discusses in his work?

Answer 2

• aesthetic
• ethical
• religious

Question 3

Aesthetic

Answer 3

aim of life is pleasure, leads to despair since the moment is too short

Question 4

Ethical

Answer 4

decision to avoid, is the universal realm of the objective moral truths

Question 5

Religious

Answer 5

paradox of the absurd, one must destroy God’s command to obey God’s command (ex. Abraham)

Question 6

Three movements to faith

Answer 6

• commitment or appropriation; concentration on a single wish
• infinite resignation; pain of renouncing temporal realizations of the wish
• faith - continuation of the wish in a spiritual sense