Søren Kierkegaard (Segment on Engagment)

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Søren Kierkegaard's Either Or stirred things up and this passage, on the rules of breaking an engagement is so wonderfully told by his created character 'Johannes' who is a seducer by trade. The young man is surrounded by eight girls and entertains their little heads off with his dialogue. Enjoy!

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  • "Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day." - Nietzsche

  • Søren Kierkegaard is the greatest danish philosopher ever!!!!

  • Is his writing not some of the most raw, poetic pieces of honest prose? Of the most human insight into the deepest of one individual's complexity of thought? Kierkegaard's "seducer" was one of the best figures in any fiction I have ever encountered.

  • I was trying to write you a response to your video in Cordelia's words, but it was too long and you tube wouldn't except it.

  • It is not misanthropy, because it is not Kierkegaard's voice. It is part of his Either/Or, and in the end the answer is neither. In this case the seducer, in insinuating himself into the vision of his objectives, loses himself. We usually think the seduced woman loses her will, but the seducer is subject to the same destiny, only he brings it upon himself. The Diary of a Seducer is a chronicle of a man who has lost his own will in the process of remaking himself for that sole task of seduction.

  • What do you like about this passage?

  • Ha. He was such a misanthrope. The way he played with those young girls' minds for amusement.

  • For me,

    Either/Or is of such enduring relevance that

    there is no moment in

    my life it could not

    comment on intelligently.

    Under its cover I learned to stand before myself, defenselessly (SaCitPA).

    Excellent Reading.

    Like those held for the poets in ancient Greece -- where

    the best recitation of Homer and Hesiod was rewarded with a prize, there

    should be contests for the reading of Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard.

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