Kierkegaard
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Kierkegaard was forthright in declaring that his philosophy was designed to ameliorate, or at least manage, existential unease — “fear and trembling” as he operatically phrased it — in a chaotic-feeling modern Europe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
But, Kierkegaard added, “I don’t know if the will is there.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
The Kierkegaard book posits the arbitrary binary of choosing to live either an ethical or an aesthetic life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2022
“It’s Scandinavian and pretentious but Kierkegaard once said ‘We can only understand life backwards, but we’re forced to live it forwards,”’ says Trier.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
Past the equipment, there was a dusty old paisley chair with a sagging seat, a desk, and a bookshelf above the bed containing the collected works of Soren Kierkegaard.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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