Exam 14: The Existentialist: Søren Kierkegaard

For Kierkegaard the ethical is the

Kierkegaard wrote in Dutch.

How many stages on life s way did Kierkegaard identify?

What, for Kierkegaard, are the different Ways of Life, and how are they related?

Johannes Climacus is named after

Leveling is, for Kierkegaard,

Michael Kierkegaard never forgave himself for cursing God.

Will Durant claimed that our culture today is superficial.

What is the System according to Kierkegaard?

Kierkegaard wished for the individual to be inscribed on his grave.

The aesthetic stage is characterized by the pursuit of

N.N. is a Danish abbreviation indicating anonymity.

What does it mean to live an authentic life? Would such a life necessarily be a happy one? Why, or why not? Explain your answer.

What Enlightenment notion did Kierkegaard believe resulted in despair?

Climacus denies he is a Christian.

Kierkegaard said that the question is what am I to do?

Kierkegaard held that becoming a subject was possible for anyone, theist or atheist.

Existentialist themes include choice, freedom, and identity.

Kierkegaard wrote Neither/Or .

Nietzsche wrote that the most pressing question for scholars was to what end their work was useful.