Exam 14: The Existentialist: Søren Kierkegaard

Descartes had reduced existence to

For Kierkegaard the ethical is the

What is Latin for "from a distance"?

To be subjective, for Kierkegaard, is to become a subject

Existentialist themes include choice, freedom, and identity.

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.

Stumpf claimed that existentialism was a freak occurrence.

Climacus denies he is a Christian.

Kierkegaard rebelled against "the system."

Kierkegaard wrote a thesis on Socratic irony.

Existence is

How does Kierkegaard understand subjectivity?

Kierkegaard wrote Neither/Or .

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

What is "the system" according to Kierkegaard?

Kierkegaard always wrote under his own name.

The only perspective from which Abraham did something that was not absurd when he chose to obey the demand to sacrifice his son is that of

"A" was expressly

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

Michael Kierkegaard, Søren's father, never forgave himself for cursing God.