Sublime

He is a sorrowful man, but he is not a miserable man.

James L. Marsh has written a few articles exploring the relationship between Kierkegaard and Marx,

Charles Segal, a recently retired Harvard professor of classics who taught my Greek Tragedy course, spoke about how the Oedipus trilogy reminded him of Erik Erikson’s three stages of development. In youth, Professor Segal said, a person struggles to figure out who they are in relation to their parents (a real head scratcher in Oedipus’s case). In m

At the same time he is a poet. For him one of the most important aesthetic values is “the interesting.” Through such literary devices as narrative, parable, satire, irony and pseudonymity, he sneaks up on the reader with substantial theological, philosophical and psychological claims. Just as with the help of the dialogue form Plato is more fun to

As Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote, “The thing that cowardice fears most is decision; for decision always scatters the mists, at least for a moment.”

Kierkegaard décrivait certains individus comme étant plongés dans un “double désespoir”, c’est-à-dire désespérés mais se mentant tellement à eux-mêmes qu’ils ne voient même pas qu’ils le sont.