Kierkegaard overview questions

Assignment: Answer questions about Kierkegaard

1) Kierkegaard is considered the father of existentialism because he renewed the christian faith. He thought that true existence was only found through faith in God. One can only become a true self, or exist as a true self, through the God.
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2) Kierkegaard rejects Hegel's idea of the dialectic. Kierkegaard believed Hegel's philosophy was too abstract. Kierkegaard believed that Hegel's system of dialect was not applicable to the everyday lives of people and it therefore was hard to apply to life.
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3) Kierkegaard was a Christian. He believed that only through faith can one become a true self that is judged by God. Kierkegaard's idea of faith relates to his existentialist ideas. Through the choices humans make they can either live for eternity in faith or live for themselves in freedom. For Kierkegaard, the renewing of faith is where the self relates to itself. In other works the human sense of self comes through the repetition of faith between god and the individual.
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4) Kierkegaard three stages of life's way deals with each of the three stages or spheres of life: the esthetic, ethical, and religious. These stages are connected and necessary to complete one's life. The religious stage is put in with the others to reinforce Kierkegaard's idea of the importance of religion. Without any of the three stages, life is incomplete. This implies if you're not religious, or you don't believe in god, then you can't complete the three stages of life.
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5) Fear and trembling introduces Kierkegaard's ethical philosophy. The book introduced the biblical story of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac. The reason Abraham would have sacrificed his son is not because of social norms, Kierkegaard states. According to Kierkegaard, the reason Abraham was at the point of sacrificing his son was because he was driven by a higher being, God. Kierkegaard calls this the "teleological suspension of the ethical."
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6) For Abraham, his duty to serve God was supreme to his duty to help himself and his son. This represents the "teleological suspension of the ethical" in that Abraham, who desired to serve God and help his son, chose to serve God over his son because God is considered a higher being. Because God is a higher being, the desire to serve him is greater than the desire to help his son by not sacrificing him.
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7) The book Fear and Trembling is about the 'teleological suspension of the ethical', or the suspension of ethical principles for a higher being, like God. In this work Kierkegaard describes the internal conflict that Abraham experiences in the book of Genesis. Abraham can't kill a because it's a sin, however, God wants him to. Abraham suspends the ethical principles of killing to obey a higher being: God.
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8) The book Either/Or describes Kierkegaard's theory of aesthetics. The title of this work represents the choice between the ethical and the aesthetic. Irony rest in the place between the ethical and the aesthetic. The aesthetic is lost in reflection much like the effect irony has on people.
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9) For Kierkegaard, the concept of anxiety (dread) comes from the important existential choices a human must make. A human can either choose to follow the desired freedom's of itself or the human can choose eternity. A true, eternal self is only accessible through faith. The other sense of self is not created through faith and is therefore not true. Anxiety is what precedes this existentialist choice. Whatever a human chooses to exist as in a critical moment, he or she will be judged as such for the rest of their lifetime.
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10)Kierkegaard's Work of Love Explains his ethical ideas of Deliberation vs. upbuilding discourse. Deliberation is motivated by goals. Upbuilding discourse is meant to persuade and soften. Kierkegaard also describes love and its connection to God. He also asserts that love is necessary for the christian.