Exam 14: The Existentialist: Søren Kierkegaard

Heschel believed that technological progress creates more problems than it solves.

Kierkegaard s work was well-known in his lifetime.

Kierkegaard published three attacks on the Danish Church.

Kierkegaard married Regina Olsen.

A was expressly

For Kierkegaard, what blinds us to existence?

How does (a) happiness, and (b) eudaimonia, feature in Kierkegaard s approach to the question of how to live?

At what age did Kierkegaard die?

What is perhaps the major existential issue?

Descartes had reduced existence to

Misterlich claimed that mass society creates an army of rival siblings.

What are the main points of difference between the views of Descartes and Kierkegaard? Illustrate your answer with examples.

Kierkegaard wanted to pass from fragmentation to

Afham means not by him .

What is Latin for from a distance ?

Kierkegaard embraced group salvation.

The ethical man or woman is

A Janus bifrons weeps with one face and laughs with the other.

Kierkegaard held that objectivity was difficult.

Soren Kierkegaard had a sense of despair.