Soren Kierkegaard, appropriately admired as the father of existentialism lived between 1813 and 1855 in Denmark. SK, as he is fondly referred to by his peers, wrote extensively in regards to the nature as well as the very existence of humans, bearing in mind the question who human beings are and the reason they are here. A devout Christian, Kierkegaard further considers the relationship that people have with God and faith. In an effort to underline his points, he utilized irony by employing different pseudonyms in regards to the narrator's symbolized diverse personalities from a non-fiction as well as a fictional perspective. An outline of his work exhibits despair, dread, repetition as well as the twin progression of infinity (McDonald, 2012).
Kierkegaard gained fame from his three stages on life's way that include the aesthetic, ethical, as well as religious stages. He concludes that the above mentioned stages are developmental and therefore, it is necessary to travel through each in order to provide concrete answers to who we are as individuals and our purpose here (McDonald, 2012). This submission will therefore seek to review these stages as presented by Soren Kierkegaard with a view of presenting a clear response to the arguments presented. Is Kierkegaard anti-philosophical in regards to the very essence of life as conceptualized individually as well as collectively and by extension? Does his work find relevance in the world from a philosophical perspective? This response will on the one hand argue that Kierkegaard is philosophically skilled and therefore his work is relevant while on the flip side, it will present a second argument based on the understanding that his work is philosophically useless and therefore, irrelevant philosophically. .
Logical Response to Kierkegaard's Three Stages of Life.
The Aesthetic Stage .
In this stage, Kierkegaard concludes that it is the phase in which man is solely focused on achieving self-pleasure or else self-happiness, this is his chief concern and motivation (Pattison, 2015).