PHIL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Søren Kierkegaard, Existentialism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 200
• Professor: Michael Blome Tillmann

Document Summary

Colourful biography; wrote under own name and pseudonyms. The stages of progression: aesthetics, ethical, and religious. Existentialism is new but human thought about the problem of our existence is very old. This is the problem of existence, as we have been articulating, is a conditional problem. If that were all there is, more of the same without any purpose, then indeed it would all be vanity meaningless. However, in religious externalism crucially god is not dead. Ecclesiastes: spoiler (cid:862)fear god a(cid:374)d keep his co(cid:373)(cid:373)a(cid:374)d(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts: for this is the whole duty of (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863)