In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. ... (KPA. 87) There we have it, the self according to Kierkegaard. ... We will now attempt to break down this definition and understand what Kierkegaard means by the self. ... (KPA 91) It must now be asked what then Kierkegaard considers to be unchangeable. ... Kierkegaard answers this question by introducing the concept of "the moment" of decision. ...

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"Kierkegaard's writings enable the individual to come to grips with his or her own "subjectivity"." ... "According to Kierkegaard there are three stages of human existence. ... This is when an existentialist would say that the person is living inauthentically, living without coming to terms with one's existence. ... In regard's to Kierkegaard's situation, what if he was never meant to be a Christian or a husband? ... Soren Kierkegaard also gave himself completely to God through his work and teachings. ...

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Kierkegaard believes that one is not able to prove the existence of God. ... In Kierkegaard's mind all things about Christianity and religion is all paradoxes. When Kierkegaard is trying to explain the fact that the existence of God cannot be proven, he makes it known that he is not trying to say something does or does not exist. ... Kierkegaard states that God is not a name, but it is merely a concept. ... Though this is a paradox, Kierkegaard makes sense of this. ...

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Tyrant VS Martyr The famous philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once said, "The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins." ... In terms of Sophocles" play Antigone it makes a lot of sense. ... In the first part of Kierkegaard's quote, he states that a tyrant's reign dies with him. ... In the second part of the quote, Kierkegaard says a martyr dies but the image will lives on forever. ...

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Existentialism was born against Age of Reason in order to reject abstract thinking and absoluteness of reason. Existentialists have claims and evidences to support their idea. They are trying to find absolute truth without absolute thinking because of this they will look for the truth all the eterni...

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In Buddhist terms, nirvana is typically described as extinction of attachment and illusion, the ceasing of the wheel of rebirth, termination of attachment, annihilation of craving and so on. ... Kierkegaard and Zen Buddhism both agree on the problem of using reason in resolving real life situations. ... In comparison, Kierkegaard's ethical system works under religious faith. For Kierkegaard, a third mode of existence is living by religious faith. ...

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William Paley has his Teleological argument and Soren Kierkegaard talks about faith. ... Some arguments for God's existence require more thought and training in terms and concepts, but this argument is basic and simple. ...

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All philosophy stems from our basic curiosity about how the universe works and what exactly our role is in its great expanse. It seeks to answer the unknown, to define the know, and make assumptions about how we are to interact socially, privately, and more importantly politically. These things ...

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We cannot impose present standards to evaluate or view the past and/or its significance, because once we know how things turned out, we tend to "rewrite" the past in terms of historical inevitability. ...

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God is beyond verbal comprehension, which is why, according to Kierkegaard; God can only be understood through silent contemplation, or the realm of the ineffable (Kabir, 2007). ... In political terms, secularism is a movement towards the separation of religion and government (often termed the separation of church and state). ...

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To approach any text we must first have some understanding of what it is we hope to take away from it. In approaching a religious text this understanding becomes even more muddled due to the vast complexities and differences that exist between religion and contemporary thought. To accurately approa...

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The world of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is a world ruled by chance. From the very opening chapters, where a watchman is accidentally run over by a train at Moscow's Petersburg station, to the final, climactic scenes of arbitrary destruction when Levin searches for Kitty in a forest beset by lightning, characters are brought together and forced into action against their will by coincidence and, sometimes, misfortune. That Anna and Vronsky ever meet and begin the fateful affair that becomes the centerpiece of the novel is itself a consequence of a long chain of unrelated events: culmina...

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The Parable of the Matrix Preface A parable can be a thing of beauty. Upon listening to the story, the listener's intuition is prompted to find meaning. So very often, a single parable can hold more than one truth depending on the experiences one brings to it. Like a diamond, a parable's q...

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