THE ETHICS OF SOREN KIERKEGAARD

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  • CARL JOERGENSEN Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/hqejxy87

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ETHICS

Abstract

If we contemplate a number of moral philosophers such as Kant, Ben- tham, Fichte and Stuart Mill and look at S r e n Kierkegaard's production against this background, it is immediately conspicuous that Kierkegaard approaches the ethical problems in a completely different way. The said philosophers view mankind as a whole, and the individual only exists as a molecule among millions. For Kierkegaard it is quite different. The individual comes to the foreground, dominating the whole field of vision, and the innumerable multitude of human beings surrounding him only exists by virtue of the single member's relations to the individual.

Thus, when we are to characterize Kierkegaard's ethical philosophy, we gain nothing from comparing him with leading contemporary philosophers or those living shortly before him. But it may be done in another way.2

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2024-11-29

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Vol. 11 No. 4 (1958): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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