In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. ... (BE 33) No matter how much I would love to soar in the air like a bird, the very fact that I have a human body that did not come equipped with wings limits me. ... Elrod in his book Being and Existence in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Works describes the infinite as "Imagination ranges free of the self's facticity by positing a multiplicity of meaning possibilities without regard for its finite limitations." (BE 34) Just as I cannot fly with the bird because of my finite limitations I can imagin...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...

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