Kierkegaard on the Self

A discussion on Kierkegaard's 'The Sickness Unto Death'.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Søren Kierkegaard
• on
• the
• Self
• The Sickness Unto Death
• The
• Sickness
• Unto
• Death
• Existentialism

[maaskeimorgen]

@colloredbrothers We'd want to talk of others' thoughts for the entertainment, I think. If that is not the motivation, I do agree with you that it is extremely counterintuitive and, well, failed.

[colloredbrothers]

Only if you have destroyed the filter of perception can you see true reality in it's objectiveness. The reason why people have different perceptions of reality is because of there causal existence being unique and creating thus a unique view of the world. It sounds good but it isn't, it causes people to be seperated from themselves and the world. In the objective perception where the mind is eternally still true knowledge flows naturally, without distortions and illusions of the self.

[colloredbrothers]

I don't understand what good it does to talk exhaustively about philosophers, I am a natural thinker myself and the reason I didn't go and study it was because studying philosophy is missing the point. Philosophy is your own thinking proces of trying to find out reality and answer the greatest questions. What good would it do for other people to talk about my thinking? You can find truth only one way and it is through the denial of self, and through purification of the mind.

[ccsniper]

I'm loving this! The lawyer guy, was brilliant. Though, the others made a few mistakes; notably that Kierkegaard 'died in 1851', when he actually died in 1855. Otherwise, everyone did great.