aidopf.blogg.se - Søren kierkegaard the concept of anxiety

The psychological observer ought to be more nimble than a tightrope dancer in order to incline and band himself to other people and imitate their attitudes, and his silence in the moment of confidence should be seductive and voluptuous, so that what is hidden may find satisfaction in slipping out to chat with itself in the artificially constructed nonobservance and silence.

One who has properly occupied himself with psychology and psychological observation acquires a general human flexibility that enables him at once to construct his example which even though it lacks factual authority nevertheless has an authority of a different kind.

The difficulty for the understanding is precisely the triumph of the explanation and its profound consequence, namely, that sin presupposes itself, that sin comes into the world in such a way by the fact that it is, it is presupposed.Īnxiety as Explaining Hereditary Sin Progressively Were this not so, sin would have come into the world as something accidental, which one would do well not to explain. Its whole content is really concentrated in one statement: Sin came into the world by a sin.

The Genesis story presents the only dialectically consistent view.

The external expression for the logical is what the Eleatics through a misunderstanding transferred to existence: nothing comes into being, everything is.Īnxiety as the Presupposition of Hereditary Sin and as Explaining Hereditary Sin Retrogressively in Terms of its Origin

In logic, no movement must come about, for logic is, and whatever is logical only is.

Not everyone who shouts Bravo, schwere, Noth, Gottblitz, bravissimo has therefore understood himself and his admiration.

Not everyone who offers himself as surety for the whole contemporary age proves by such action that he is reliable and can vouch for himself. Not everyone who says Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven. Not everyone who is stoop-shouldered is an Atlas, nor did he become such by supporting a world. Just as each day’s trouble is sufficient for the day, so each individual in a generation has enough to do in taking care of himself and does not need to embrace the whole contemporary age with his paternal solicitude or assume that era and epoch begin with his book, and still less with the New Year’s torch of his promise or with the intimations of his farseeing promises or with the referral of his reassurance to a currency of doubtful value. Each generation has its own task and need not trouble itself unduly by being everything to previous and succeeding generations.1.4 Anxiety of Sin or Anxiety as the Consequence of Sin in the Single Individual.1.3 Anxiety as the Consequence of that Sin which is Absence of the Consciousness of Sin.1.2 Anxiety as Explaining Hereditary Sin Progressively.

1.1 Anxiety as the Presupposition of Hereditary Sin and as Explaining Hereditary Sin Retrogressively in Terms of its Origin.