Consequently he is not in despair over. Some individuals, for whom full consciousness of their situation would flood them with despair, actually believe the life path they are on is right and proper and will lead to fulfillment. While many philosophers content themselves with sparkling oratory, the rhetorical force of a statement was not enough to engage or impress this spiritual thinker. Become a member and gain access to exclusive member videos. If there is to be a revelation let it teach us about heavenly things. An individual is in despair when he or she is not moving in the direction of the person they potentially could be, or in Kierkegaard’s words, despair is the consequence of: “…not willing to be the self which one truly is.” The philosopher Stephen Evans in his book on Kierkegaard expands on this conception of despair: “Kierkegaard, like Nietzsche a half-century later, sees the human self not simply as a finished product, a kind of entity, but as a developing process. And so, Kierkegaard’s insights serve a much-needed antidote to the hollowness of our age. The modern conformist with his outward focus neglects these inner values and so struggles to move in the direction of full selfhood and thus finds himself in despair, or as Kierkegaard wrote: “By seeing the multitude of people around, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of the world, such a person forgets himself…dares not believe in himself, finds being himself too risky, finds it much easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, a mass-man. Of those who are stunted in their development some are conscious of their predicament and so aware of their despair which according to Kierkegaard is a prognostically positive sign. But becoming conscious of despair is only the first step as action must also be taken if change is to be realized. Many thanks. The human being is spirit. So it seems for an instant, but only for an instant; that same instant the true despair manifests itself, or despair manifests itself in its true character. From this the theologians proved the eternity of hell-punishment. I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”. Sickness unto death was a familiar phrase in Kierkegaard's earlier writings. Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death But becoming conscious of despair is only the first step as action must also be taken if change is to be realized. Subscribe to our Newsletter. The self is a relation which relates itself, or that in the relation which is its relating to itself. Quotations by Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher, Born May 5, 1813. That Despair is the Sickness unto Death; 1.3 B. “That one is in despair is not a rarity; no, it is rare, very rare, that one is…not in despair.”. That Despair is the Sickness unto Death, https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=The_Sickness_Unto_Death&oldid=2691472, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Kierkegaard, who was born in 1813 and died on 11 on November 1855, has been called the father of existentialism. Despair is the impossibility of possibility. This page was last edited on 27 October 2019, at 02:47. 890 quotes from Søren Kierkegaard: 'Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ', 'The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. An awareness of the emptiness of self results in that feeling we normally call despair….”. For the world within must be mastered just as surely as the world outside of us and this means that to experience the cultivation of full selfhood we must also focus on inner values such as emotional intelligence, psychological resilience, courage, integrity, tolerance and the ability to think for ourselves. But that there should be revelation to explain what sin is, that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard. Naturally the world has generally no understanding of what is truly horrifying. But what is the self? "This sickness is not unto death" (John 11:4), and yet Lazarus died; for when the disciples misunderstood the words which Christ adjoined later, "Lazarus our friend is asleep, but I go to wake him out of his sleep" (11:11), He said plainly, "Lazarus is dead" (11:14). The law for the development of the self in respect of understanding, so long as it remains true that the self is becoming itself, is that every increase in understanding corresponds to a greater degree of self-understanding, that the more it knows, the more it knows itself. To come to understand what he is saying is to be challenged as a person, the challenge is in the form of an interrogation, the topic of which is very simple: you are an existing person, a human being; do you treat this fact with the seriousness and respect it demands? The possibility of this sickness is man's superiority over the animal, and this superiority distinguishes him in quite another way than does his erect walk, for it indicates. 1.1 Preface and Introduction; 1.2 A. The following is a transcript of this video. The despair that not only does not cause any inconvenience in life, but makes life convenient and comfortable, is naturally enough in no way regarded as despair.”. Blind adherence to social convention was a sure way to spiritual death for Kierkegaard. Once he would gladly have given everything to be rid of this agony, but he was kept in waiting; now it is too late, now he would rather.
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