Sickness Unto Death
Well, believe it or not, I am getting a little tired of “convictions” and the “weaker brother.” :) So even though I have 4 (or 5) more Parts partially written, I want a break.
Anyone want to read and discuss Søren Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death?
Here’s a pdf: http://www.naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/Kierkegaard,Soren/TheSicknessUn…
Ok - here’s a little taste of what’s in store if you want to read it…
Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.
Now you know you want to read more of that!
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