Soren Kierkegaard

(Originally published on 26 May 2017)

Soren Kierkegaard: My favourite existentialist philosopher. Although I disagree with majority of existentialists generally speaking, I strongly agree with and am sympathetic to Soren Kierkegaard. 

 

He explicitly criticised schools of the modern idealism and their influences in the modern world. The disease of modernity is a blunt dogmatic determinism without an emotional passion. Also, he mentioned that the modern idealism merely attracts people with their abstract principle which is extremely complex to explicitly explain in a plain language. These modern idealists including both fascists and socialists over-estimate the future while depreciating the simple happinesses in both the past and the pressent. 

 

Either/Or is our ever lasting challenge in our life and makes us strong, passionate, and then wise. (The following sentences were added on 09 May 2024) We are living with our best effort to live off our life. Every choice of our life is derived from our optimum decision making process as well as the inevitable external influences. Therefore, even with a rational way of explaining which choice is right or wrong, there is utterly unproductive and miserable to regret what has been chosen to do. We may just need to repent our choice in our life to make ourselves more emotionally and spiritually satisfied with it.