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. ... Four distinctions are made: infinite and finite, temporal and eternal, freedom and necessity, and finally body and soul. Considering that our focus is going to be the eternal (and its related counterpart the temporal) I am not going to go into great depth on the other three, but, as we shall soon see, the eternal plays a major role in the development of those other distinctions. ... The reason that we first explored the eternal as ...

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The notion of despair becomes unseemingly the principal lot to which Kierkegaard expresses his outlook on the desolate existence of man. ... The danger of which says Kierkegaard, despair clings to you even more terrible than that of bodily death. ... Kierkegaard sets forth in this perspective with a dialectic of suffering, in this case it is assessed as an aesthetic category. ... Such notion, Kierkegaard argues is believably noble in deed as long as there is conviction in the stand that a person takes. ... In anyway, Kierkegaard views them both as a recognizance that God love puts a test to hu...

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Hume makes a distinction between "relations of ideas" and "matters of fact.... 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. ... 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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Schopenhauer believed in a distinction between the world we experience and the underlying reality. According to him, this distinction can be found within a person's will. ... 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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