PHI 1000 Lecture 5: PHI 5
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Kierkegaard is criticizing the ethical, the universal (values) Understands hegel"s idea of the universal as platitudes, a mimic truth. Once a person"s true memories of the original world are refilled, it means that his archetypes are reduced to trite expressions and slogans (they could mean anything). Kierkegaard criticizes the ethical because the ethical has supplanted god and come to be seen as a form of salvation. As soon as the single individual asserts himself in his singularity before the universal, he sins and only by acknowledging this can he be reconciled again with the universal. If it is the highest that can be said of man and his existence, then the ethical is of the same nature of a person"s eternal salvation. Doesn"t think ethical and eternal salvation are the same thing. If this is the best we can do we are in trouble.
