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Date of upload: Dec 15, 2022 ^^
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Love your content, but I hugely disagree on Kierkegaard having avoided marriage to keep his romantic options open. Far from it! He loved this woman beyond belief, took on a vow of celibacy for her and actually considered himself spiritually married to Regine, leaving her all his belongings (including his mansion, which she refused to take) after he died. Apart from meeting people on his walks, he was a loner and a melancholic and devoted himself entirely to his thinking and writing, for which he needed solitude and not a wife to deal with.
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My problem with the moral life (and why I chose the aesthetic life) is that I see no reward in it. There is nothing to gain from it.
In my opinion, the best way to take care of others, is to teach them to take care of themselves. For that, I need to learn to take care of myself first. If everyone could take care of themselves by themselves, the world will be a better place.
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Where did you get the idea that Kierkegaard was conflicted about monogamy? He famously wrote that the reason why he broke off his engagement was because there existed ”something spectral about me, something no one can endure who has to see me every day and have a real relationship with me"
That sounds more like insecurity than anything else.
On his fiancée’s wikipedia page, it’s also stated that Kierkegaard believed god was calling him to celibacy.
None of these things make it sound like he was some player who didn’t want to get tied down.
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@Nick-qf7vt
1 year ago
Coming from a Christian perspective here: I come from a more traditional school of theological thought based about reasoning and the importance of it. But I also love Kirkegaard for just coming out guns blazing and giving both middle fingers to the enlightenment world saying "I choose faith over your precious reason". Brilliant man. He understood the hellish blackness of life just as well as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche but doesn't get as much credit.
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