Stages on Life's Way

Subjectivity constitutes the truth.

whoever prays to an idol with his whole heart and soul prays to the true god whilst he who prays to the true god from mere force of habit and without having his heart in it is really worshipping an idol shows his romanticism in the fact that he sharply contrasts the heart of life as it is actually experienced and entirely disregards intellectual integrity which is an essential condition if personal truth is to escape identification with blindness kurkegaard outlined a kind of comparative theory of life partly in poetic form ent waiter oder either or stadion auf dem lebensweg stages on life's way partly in philosophical form in his chief philosophical treatise mentioned above He distinguishes various stadia, which however do not constitute stages in a continuous line of evolution, but sharply severed types.

The transition from the one to the other does not follow with logical necessity, nor by means of an evolution explainable by psychological processes, but by a leap and inexplicable act of will.

kirkagord maintains the qualitative antitheses of life in sharp contrast to the quantitative continuity of the speculative systems according to kirkagord the principle of evaluation and construction of theories of life consists in the degree of opposition which spiritual life is capable of comprehending the particular moment in the totality of life time and eternity reality and the ideal nature and god constitute such antitheses the tension of life increases in direct proportion to the increasing sharpness of the manifestation of these antitheses and the energy which is supposed to constitute life must therefore likewise be correspondingly greater The professional artist who is absorbed in the pleasure of the moment represents the lowest degree.

I love that book.

Stages on Life's Way, April 30th, 1845, edited by Hilarius Bookbinder.

A multi-perk part, a multi-part work that expands upon Either/Or, outlining the three spheres of existence: aesthetic, ethical, religious.

Concluding Unscientific Post- Postscripts to Philosophical Fragments, uh, February 27th, 1846.