Personal Life
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Where was Kierkegaard from
Aesthetic, Ethical, Religious
What are Kierkegaard's three stages of life
A decisive act of commitment, requiring a person to exercise passion
What is Kierkegaard's "leap of faith"
Concerned not with abstract essences but with concrete, particular existence
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Cannot be reached merely by thought; the person must make a decisive act of commitment
"An objective uncertainty, held fast through appropriation with the most passionate inwardness"
What is "the highest truth for an existing individual?
This statement suggests a wholesale rejection of objective truth
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What is the Aesthetic Stage
Obedience is motivated not by a zeal for conformity to abstract precepts but by a passionate love for the lawgiver
How does Kierkegaard portray motivation for the Religious Stage
The state church has reduced Christianity to an empty formalism and externalism, which in effect produces mere spectators to Christianity
What is Kierkegaard's opposition to the state church
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Who was Kierkegaard's fiance
Seeking to live simply by law, one loses the personal in abstract social and legal relationships
What is the Ethical Stage
The movement from a person's essential condition to his existential condition
How does Kierkegaard distinguish between the "indicative" and the "imperative"
Christianity affirms crucial events that actually happened, objectively, in the fullness of time. If dehistoricized, Christianity is destroyed
What is at stake for the Christian view with Kierkegaard's view of truth as subjectivity
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