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3 unusual facts about The Concept of Anxiety


Either/Or

The aesthete, according to Kierkegaard's model, will eventually find himself in "despair", a psychological state (explored further in Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness Unto Death) that results from a recognition of the limits of the aesthetic approach to life.

Fear and Trembling

Faith is to him the highest actual passion, which, thrilled by the consciousness of sin and guilt, appropriates to itself the paradox in defiance of the understanding, and from which all comprehension, all contemplation are excluded, as it is of a purely practical nature, a mere act of the will.

The Concept of Anxiety

Kierkegaard argued about this in both Repetition and Fear and Trembling where he said philosophy must not define faith.



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